Single-player games like Gone Home
Below are 17 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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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie 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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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie 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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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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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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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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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Gone Home.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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The Last Case of John Morley
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
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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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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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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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Myst
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie 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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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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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Home.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Gone Home.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
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The Forgotten City
Single-player alternative to Gone Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Gone Home.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
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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!