Single-player games like Echoes
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Echoes, 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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Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
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Hillthorn
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A disappearance in a secluded community. A mountain hiding its secrets. A detective running out of time. Welcome to Hillthorn, a dark investigation game that invites you to uncover the mystery without a single word spoken, using your skills of logic and intuition through cards.
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Call of the Forgotten
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Echoes.
A hand-drawn point-and-click adventure featuring a detective noir story set in a cyberpunk world, infused with cosmic horror.
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Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
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of the Devil
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
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Tails Noir
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Echoes.
Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings in this sequel to the critically acclaimed AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.
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Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
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The madness of death
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Echoes.
The madness of death is a first person psychological horror game. Explore the house in order to escape from it and break the curse of the Death Stone. You will have to solve the puzzles in order to advance and try not to stay in the dark.
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Along the Edge
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Following the loss of a baby, a breakup, and a surprise heritage, Daphné decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in the French countryside. There, she discovers she's the last descendant of a line of witches. Will she embrace the family tradition?
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Seers Isle
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
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Across the Grooves
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.
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End of Lines
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
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After the Wane
Single-player alternative to Echoes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.