Single-player games like Cat Museum
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Cat Museum, 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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Life Gallery
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cat Museum.
Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.
- 2
The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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Wurroom
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Experience a 10 minute dive into the unknown depths of the multiverse!
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Happy Game
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
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Papetura
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
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Catie in MeowmeowLand
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Catie in MeowmeowLand is a classical humorous point-and-click adventure game. Help little Catie get back home from the bizarre cat world of MeowmeowLand!
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Lucid Dream Adventure
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
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100 hidden cups
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
The strange cups are hidden on the paper. A difficult adventure for the eyes.
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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
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The House in Fata Morgana
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cat Museum.
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
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Fran Bow
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Sally Face - Episode One
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
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WORLD OF HORROR
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cat Museum.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
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OMORI
Single-player alternative to Cat Museum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cat Museum.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.