Single-player games like Something Strange
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Something Strange, 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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Re:Metamorphosis Candina
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Something Strange.
All girls can transform with candy. A short branching visual novel about a mysterious candy shop and the girls who go there. What candy will you choose?
- 2
I Am Here, I Won't Disappear. I Am Here, I Won't...
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Something Strange.
A patchwork quilt of meanings, ideas, references, and madness. A crack in the sink of your understanding. And also the story of one unfortunate girl.
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You know my name?
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Something Strange.
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
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Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Something Strange.
Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Something Strange.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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Her Love, Like Poison
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Something Strange.
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
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Misericorde: Volume One
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Something Strange.
Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.
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The seven days i spent with you
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Something Strange.
With the enigmatic girl who imprisoned you――seven days in an unfamiliar room.
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Vivian Carmine
Single-player alternative to Something Strange — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Something Strange.
In an average town somewhere in America, a disturbance has been felt. Vivian Carmine and her badge, Nicholas, have come from the Gap Between Worlds to investigate.