Single-player games like Imagine Lifetimes
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Imagine Lifetimes, 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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Closer the Distance
Single-player alternative to Imagine Lifetimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Imagine Lifetimes.
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Imagine Lifetimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Imagine Lifetimes.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Everything
Single-player alternative to Imagine Lifetimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Imagine Lifetimes.
Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.
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Moral Dilemma: The Interview
Single-player alternative to Imagine Lifetimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Imagine Lifetimes.
A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.
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The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything
Single-player alternative to Imagine Lifetimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Imagine Lifetimes.
The Majority of People navigate progress, politics and preposterous propulsive plans in this satirical point-and-click adventure. Featuring highly debatable democracy, problematic project managers and the belief that Anthony's underdeveloped prefrontal cortex will lead to your salvation!
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Many Nights a Whisper
Single-player alternative to Imagine Lifetimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Imagine Lifetimes.
A short interactive essay on dreams, pressure, and expectations. Take part in an ancient ritual where one shot determines the fate of a generation.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Imagine Lifetimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Imagine Lifetimes.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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Trolley Problem, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Imagine Lifetimes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Imagine Lifetimes.
Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.