Single-player games like The Place I Called Home
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Place I Called Home, 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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Into A Dream
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place I Called Home.
You are his last hope. The only one who can rescue him. Delve deep into the dreams of Luke Williams, a man diagnosed with depression, unfold the heartbreaking story of his life and prevent him from... fading away.
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The Plan
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with The Place I Called Home.
A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.
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Before I Forget
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place I Called Home.
A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.
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Paws - A Shelter 2 Game
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place I Called Home.
Traverse a vast world as a young lynx cub. Paws – A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure game with loss and friendship as its central themes. Venture out in the world and make your way home.
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The Stillness of the Wind
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place I Called Home.
A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place I Called Home.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Maquette
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place I Called Home.
Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.
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Riven (1997)
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Place I Called Home.
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
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Grimtale Island
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Free To Play with The Place I Called Home.
Grimtale Island is a open world survival game set in a beautiful low poly art style. Explore and master survival on a island that has been taken over by a strange infection causing the dead to return to the world of the living. Craft gather and build to stay alive in this world.
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The Glade
Single-player alternative to The Place I Called Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Free To Play with The Place I Called Home.
The Glade is a beautiful open world survival set on a stylized island which has been struck all over from large and mysterious meteorites creating a bridge for evil creatures from another world to enter and destroy anything in their path.