Single-player games like Grief like a stray dog
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Grief like a stray dog, 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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Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Single-player alternative to Grief like a stray dog — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grief like a stray dog.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
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A Sketchbook About Her Sun
Single-player alternative to Grief like a stray dog — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Grief like a stray dog.
Through a narrative based on Red Ribbon’s new album “Planet X”, experience a broken-heart girl’s journey through thoughts, daydreams and music.
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Svoboda 1945: Liberation
Single-player alternative to Grief like a stray dog — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grief like a stray dog.
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
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Torn Away
Single-player alternative to Grief like a stray dog — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grief like a stray dog.
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Grief like a stray dog — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grief like a stray dog.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Closer the Distance
Single-player alternative to Grief like a stray dog — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Grief like a stray dog.
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
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Hindsight
Single-player alternative to Grief like a stray dog — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grief like a stray dog.
What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.
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Brukel
Single-player alternative to Grief like a stray dog — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Grief like a stray dog.
A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice. Take pictures of what remains of her abandoned childhood home to uncover the dark, traumatic events that she had to fight through as a teenage girl.