Single-player games like Tell Me Why
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Tell Me Why, 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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Life is Strange 2
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
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Life is Strange: True Colors
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
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Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
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Life is Strange: Reunion
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
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The Walking Dead: Season Two
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
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Attentat 1942
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
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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Beyond: Two Souls
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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Marie's Room
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Free To Play with Tell Me Why.
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Vampyr
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
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Remember Me
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tell Me Why.
Remember Me™ is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.
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The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Single-player alternative to Tell Me Why — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Free To Play with Tell Me Why.
Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2