Single-player games like The Railway
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Railway, 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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Bad Faith
Single-player alternative to The Railway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Railway.
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
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Dull Grey
Single-player alternative to The Railway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Railway.
Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. Experience an emotional story of a mother and son in a dystopian world, make simple but meaningful choices and discover multiple endings. Will you see your story unfold in full colour?
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Every Hue of You
Single-player alternative to The Railway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Railway.
Every Hue of You follows the deeply personal and thoughtful journey of Twyla: A jeweller battling grief who awakens the power to enchant her creations with the energy of emotions.
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Saoirse
Single-player alternative to The Railway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Railway.
Eight people are trapped in an abandoned neurotech facility. The only hope for escape is by surviving deathgames based on scans of each other's minds.
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《乱步馆》-断崖 -Precipice
Single-player alternative to The Railway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Railway.
这是一部短篇视觉互动小说, 剧情改编自江户川乱步的同名短篇小说, 作品以一对青年男女在断崖边回忆往事开始, 通过抽丝剥茧的分析那件往日旧案, 一点一滴的挖出了隐藏在案件背后的更为残酷的真相, 乱步也同时透过作品中他(她)们的对话和回忆, 讨论和表述了自己心目中的某种“完美”。
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MyMustache
Single-player alternative to The Railway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Railway.
"My Mustache" is a narrative game that tells a story about childhood.
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Wanderlust: Transsiberian
Single-player alternative to The Railway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Railway.
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
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Wednesdays
Single-player alternative to The Railway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Railway.
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.