Single-player games like Before Your Eyes
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Before Your Eyes, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Goodnight Universe
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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The Beginner's Guide
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Before Your Eyes.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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That Dragon, Cancer
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
An immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love.
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Impostor Factory
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Before Your Eyes.
A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.
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Closer the Distance
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Before Your Eyes.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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As Long As You're Here
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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OMORI
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
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OneShot
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Before Your Eyes.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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Road 96 🛣️
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Your Eyes.
Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!
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Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
Single-player alternative to Before Your Eyes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Before Your Eyes.
Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.