Single-player games like I Did Not Buy This Ticket
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to I Did Not Buy This Ticket, 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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GAG
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
An interactive psychological horror drama.
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Melbourne: Route 96
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.
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To Be With You
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
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The Window Box
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
Wander from room to room in this whimsical and dark visual novel as you follow five friends trapped during a freak storm. Listen while they have hard conversations and tough realizations as they confront the conflict in their lives. For what is a house but a box with windows?
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Tonight, I Die in My Sleep
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
Navigate broken memories in a powerless fantasy fueled equally by nightmares and confessional poetry. A narrative experiment in adapting dreams and poems to the medium of video games.
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Pikabuu: STOP!
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
Beni, a loving husband to Nadia and father to Kaila, always ensured his family's needs were met with simple contentment. However, one day, an unwitting decision dragged his small family into a spiral that threatens everything.
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Room 337
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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Chariot
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
Embark on a journey to give his majesty the ride of his afterlife. Guide a chariot containing the King's remains through underground caves using physics-based mechanics such as pushing, pulling, riding and swinging.
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The Outsiders
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
The Outsiders is a sci-fi top-down survival shooter, a fun little indie game where you play as the Alien Boss slaying humans who are invading your planet! Be the Boss, destroy multiple enemies with a single blow or all of them with your badass power!
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Paratopic
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
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Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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Mediterranea Inferno
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.
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q.u.q.
Single-player alternative to I Did Not Buy This Ticket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with I Did Not Buy This Ticket.
q.u.q. is a surreal visual novel about a somewhat crude girl that wanders a desert.