Single-player games like Gone Home
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Gone Home, 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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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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PROXIMATE
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the "ketchup" in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Home is Where One Starts...
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
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The Caribou Trail
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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INFRA
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.
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Scanner Sombre
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
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Twilight
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Gone Home.
Twilight is a small dividing line between light and darkness. Sometimes you have to choose where you should stay and for what purpose.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Gone Home.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Fullbright Presents TOILET SPIDERS
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Eight Legs… Four Eyes… Limitless Terror!