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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Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.
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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
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Birth
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
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Florence
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Last Day of June
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 deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?
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My Brother Rabbit
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination.
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Monument Valley 3
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around.
Set sail for a world-changing adventure as you guide Noor in their quest through a series of mind-bending illusions and atmospheric puzzles. Can you unlock the secrets of the mysterious world – and the meaning behind the Sacred Light?
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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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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.
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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.
- 16
Unpacking
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around.
Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.
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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