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Single-player games like Gerda: A Flame in Winter

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Gerda: A Flame in Winter, 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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    Pentiment — Steam game cover

    Pentiment

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

    2022AdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grief like a stray dog — Steam game cover

    Grief like a stray dog

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.

    2025IndieAdventure3.74 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    雄关漫道,一梦万里 — Steam game cover

    雄关漫道,一梦万里

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    Find a way out, for a dream that never fade away.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure1.00 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Victorian Debutante — Steam game cover

    Victorian Debutante

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?

    2022AdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind — Steam game cover

    Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG.

    2022AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Harmony: The Fall of Reverie — Steam game cover

    Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest — Steam game cover

    Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    Explore the myths and monsters of Europe’s last primeval wilderness. Play as Maia, who arrives at the ancient Białowieża Forest looking to explore her family history. Discover Rage in an adventure game inspired by the experience of the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Werewolf: The Apocalypse.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Road 96 🛣️ — Steam game cover

    Road 96 🛣️

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.96 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tell Me Why — Steam game cover

    Tell Me Why

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.

    2020AdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Life is Strange Remastered — Steam game cover

    Life is Strange Remastered

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Gerda: A Flame in Winter.

    Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.

    2022ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Lines — Steam game cover

    Broken Lines

    Single-player alternative to Gerda: A Flame in Winter — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Broken Lines is a story-driven tactical RPG set in an alternate-history version of WWII. Lead a squad of soldiers and face the horrors of war. In the included expansion, 'The Dead and the Drunk', guide your troops through fights against both the living and the undead.

    2020Strategy24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →