Single-player games like When The Past Was Around - Prologue
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to When The Past Was Around - Prologue, 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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Where's My Red Ball?
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
Find the red ball for one lonely cat! “Where's my red ball?” is a game where you have to find the hidden red ball in many ways to make the little cat happy. Sometimes the red ball will be hiding in the most unexpected places. Open boxes, wipe off paint, and operate machines to get the red ball.
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She and the Light Bearer
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
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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In Your Books
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
In Your Books is a short adventure game where you play the granddaughter of a bookseller. After her disappearance you'll have to take the place of your grandmother. Recommend books, learn to know the locals, solve secret mechanisms and discover where she left.
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Painting Werther
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
Painting Werther is a Paintable Visual Novel where all the visuals are living paintings, all the music are classics (with a twist) and the novel was written by Goethe in 1774.
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Korter 1996
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
You find a secret passage at your new flat leading to other people’s homes. Unpack your stuff, collect items and solve the mysteries of each of the apartments to unlock the story of the apartment block. You might not feel so lonely, after all.
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Gorogoa
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.
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LUNA The Shadow Dust
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack.
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The Search
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
Embark on a journey of discovery and inspiration in The Search - a story-driven puzzle-adventure set in a mysterious world where art comes to life!
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A Space for the Unbound
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
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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When The Past Was Around
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
When the Past was Around is an 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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DIVINATION
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
"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.
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Ultra Space Battle Brawl
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
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 - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
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 - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
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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A Space For The Unbound - Prologue
Single-player alternative to When The Past Was Around - Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with When The Past Was Around - Prologue.
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