Single-player games like White Paper
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to White Paper, 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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Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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Leila
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face. Solve story-driven puzzles, relive fragile memories, and discover a deeply personal journey that may feel more familiar than you expect.
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Detention
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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Journal
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
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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BlackEye
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
BlackEye is an adventure game, and its main character is the inhabitant of the world of Koyte. This mysterious world is divided into two - upper and lower ones. No one inhabitant of the upper world would voluntarily go down to the lower world. However the main character has to reach the bottom!
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Get Achievements for Achievements
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
The main goal of this game is to get achievements.
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Cyberoque
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
The game takes place in 2215. Suddenly terrible news has come from the outskirts of the solar system: our civilization was attacked by the alien armies. A terrible war begins, humanity is surrounded, enemy space ships press the earth's army.
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Halloween Pumpkin Story
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
Evil spirits on the Day of All Saints give the pumpkin power and send into the otherworldly dark world of nightmare and horror, and what will happen to the pumpkin you will be able to find yourself in the world of the game!
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Super Jet Juck
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
Super Jet Juck is a dynamic puzzle and adventure game. Join the soldiers Juck and Tom!
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CRYEP
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
CRYEP is a hardcore two-dimensional action platformer that combines the genre of "rogue" and the mechanics of Contra. Actions take place in a parallel universe, year 3318. Go on an expedition and fight with alien enemies.
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SAMS
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
Classic shooter with traveling to various exotic planets.
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Moi Mei
Single-player alternative to White Paper — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with White Paper.
The fate of his brother in danger, May is going to be a dangerous journey.