Single-player games like Stray
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Stray, 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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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stray.
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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Cyberpunk 2077
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stray.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stray.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Cloudpunk
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.
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Little Kitty, Big City
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?
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A Short Hike
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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Chants of Sennaar
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
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ABZU
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
From the art director of Journey®, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.
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I Am Fish
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stray.
I Am Fish is a charming, physics-based adventure starring four intrepid fish friends, forcibly separated from their home in a pet shop fish tank. Swim, fly, roll and chomp your way to the open ocean in a bid for freedom and to re-unite once again.
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...
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I Am Bread
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!
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GRIS
Single-player alternative to Stray — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stray.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.