Single-player games like Cats and the Other Lives
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Cats and the Other Lives, 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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Radio Ghosts
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.
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随风而逝 Story About Times
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone. The moment when you turn back, don't forget the place where came from!
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ARIJIGOKU
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
A short, narrative-driven 2D pixel art adventure/horror game. Play as Erik, a man lost in grief, as you explore a secluded forest, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth. With multiple endings and deadly choices, curiosity can cost you — so save often.
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VIDEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
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Mama
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
An emotional narrative point-and-click about a daughter caring for her mother as dementia reshapes their bond. Explore heartfelt conversations, fragmented memories, and story-driven puzzles on a journey of caregiving and learning to let go.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
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Finding Paradise
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
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Robotherapy
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
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Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Single-player alternative to Cats and the Other Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?