Single-player games like Em-A-Li
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Em-A-Li, 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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Condition Unknown
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Em-A-Li.
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
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NODE ZERO
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Em-A-Li.
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
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Bleeding Nightmare | 血に染まる悪夢
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Em-A-Li.
Descend into the fever dreams of a traumatized young man in a first-person psychological horror game about grief, trauma, and fractured memories. Confront the horrors of your past and find a way back home from Hell. KNOCK, AND THEY WILL ANSWER.
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Lazaret
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Em-A-Li.
Lazaret is an atmospheric first-person horror game. You play as a member of a rescue team called out to investigate a distress signal coming from a ship that disappeared 4 years ago.
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Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Em-A-Li.
Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.
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The Sin
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Em-A-Li.
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
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Suicide Countdown: 7 Days
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Em-A-Li.
Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and ghastly series of events... When fate comes knocking, will you have the courage to make a choice?
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OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Em-A-Li.
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
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Harvest Island
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Em-A-Li.
Discover your sinister purpose in this horror farming game. Your idyllic farm life can't be trusted. Keep up with the façade as you give your crops to the gods. Explore the ominous island and question everything. You must fake your blissful farming days. Your life depends on it.
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Em-A-Zurvival
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Em-A-Li.
The continuation of Em-A-Li in this zombie themed horror puzzle game. Escape from your apartment and survive the jump scares.
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A Journey's End
Single-player alternative to Em-A-Li — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Em-A-Li.
A boy wakes up in the spirit world not knowing how he got there. He needs to find a way home but is caught up working for the owner of the bath house. Forced to work, he must find a way to escape the bath house, and find his way back home before the spirit feast festival arrives