Single-player games like Essays on Empathy
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Essays on Empathy, 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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Impostor Factory
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Essays on Empathy.
A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.
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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Essays on Empathy.
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
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The Red Strings Club
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Essays on Empathy.
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
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Finding Paradise
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Essays on Empathy.
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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Fragments of Him
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Essays on Empathy.
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
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Many Nights a Whisper
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Essays on Empathy.
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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The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Essays on Empathy.
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Essays on Empathy.
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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Gods Will Be Watching
Single-player alternative to Essays on Empathy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Essays on Empathy.
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.