Single-player games like Buried
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Buried, 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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Some Distant Memory
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
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Journal
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Buried.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Buried.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Home
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Buried.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
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Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.
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Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
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Crazy World of Caleb
Single-player alternative to Buried — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Buried.
NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKS!!! Help Caleb get his girl back. To save her, Caleb needs to brave various locations. Run, Jump and Dash to avoid different type of enemies and make it to your destination.