Single-player games like Rainy Season
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Rainy Season, 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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CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Single-player alternative to Rainy Season — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Rainy Season.
A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Rainy Season — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rainy Season.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Sumire
Single-player alternative to Rainy Season — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Rainy Season.
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Rainy Season — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rainy Season.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Coffee Talk
Single-player alternative to Rainy Season — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Rainy Season.
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
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Rainswept
Single-player alternative to Rainy Season — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rainy Season.
Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Rainy Season — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Rainy Season.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Home is Where One Starts...
Single-player alternative to Rainy Season — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rainy Season.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.