Single-player games like When The Past Was Around
Below are 24 single-player Steam games similar to When The Past Was Around, 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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Kosmonavtes: Escape Reality
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
A Room Escape and puzzle / adventure game! Help Vala fulfil her dream and become an astronaut!
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The Wizard Party
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
🔮The Wizard Party🔮 is a short and whimsical puzzle adventure game where all items are physics objects that interact with each other!
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Connected Hearts: Fortune Play Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
Love can wound and heal. It is a feeling inherent in everyone. But can you get love by force or deception? Find out in this new game!
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I commissioned some cats 2
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
I paid artists to hide cats and wool in 15 pieces of artwork. Can you find them all? Warning: Relaxing.
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Their Story.
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
Their Story. is a 2D narrative exploration and puzzle adventure about love and connection between two cyclists in the city of Valparaíso. As you uncover their stories and daily lives, a hidden bond between two strangers begins to emerge. Will they ever meet?.
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Cleaning Queens
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
House cleaning has never been more fun - grab your mouse, sit back, relax, and clean up numerous rooms in this satisfying point-and-click game!
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Meowing Point
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Point and meow. 3D hidden cat game. These creatures have been turned into stone. Find and save them all.
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Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Haunted by mysterious curses from her orphanage days, Mary is finally forced to confront the truth behind her past. Step into the enchanted Netherworld—a realm where destiny is written in blood and every choice shapes her fate. An award-winning adventure blending mystery, emotion, and dark fantasy.
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INSIDE
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with When The Past Was Around.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
Even the smallest person can make a big difference. Join Alba, as she sets out to save her beautiful island and its wildlife. And possibly start a revolution.
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TOEM 2
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Step back into the shoes of a curious photographer and set off on a brand new adventure all about uncovering hidden details, helping friends along the way, and documenting the world’s little wonders in TOEM 2, the sequel to the acclaimed TOEM.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
- 15
Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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LoveChoice
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
"What is love?" We try to answer that with this game. The game encourages people to have a warm, soft, and understanding heart.
- 17
A Space for the Unbound
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
A magical adventure about two high school sweethearts set at the end of their school days - and the end of the world. Explore a crumbling town and help friends face their inner demons, which could be the key to stopping reality itself disintegrating. And don’t forget to pet the cats.
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She and the Light Bearer
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
She and the Light Bearer is a point and click adventure game, a poem, a fairy tale. Take a journey inside a vibrantly colored forest, meet silly creatures, listen to serene folk music, and discover somber secrets.
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DIVINATION
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
- 20
Ultra Space Battle Brawl
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with When The Past Was Around.
Easy to learn yet hard to master, Ultra Space Battle Brawl is a fun competitive game fit for settling disputes, be it with your friends and family or rivals and arch nemesis.
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Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm -
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
Banyu Lintar Angin is a series of experimental illustrations about three siblings, living together independently in a rural Indonesian environment.
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A Raven Monologue
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
A Raven Monologue is a short experimental silent story about a raven that does not know how to croak and his relationship with the people in the town.
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When The Past Was Around - Prologue
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
This is the prologue chapter of "When the Past was Around", an upcoming adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.
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A Space For The Unbound - Prologue
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Prologue chapter of A Space For The Unbound, an upcoming slice-of-life adventure game with beautiful pixelart set in the late 90s rural Indonesia that tells a story about overcoming anxiety, depression, and the relationship between a boy and a girl with supernatural powers