Single-player games like Kairo
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Kairo, 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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MirrorMoon EP
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
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The Exhibition
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
You’ve just arrived on this island to visit The Exhibition. Explore this place, its architecture, and its space. There’s no real goal, just your desire to explore and discover what lies behind these walls. If you get lost, stay calm, you’re still alone.
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Daardoa
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Kairo.
Atmospheric and surreal horror game about day and night cycle.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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Rememoried
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person adventure game.
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
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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The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
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Journal
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kairo.
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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the white chamber
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kairo.
Sci-fi horror anime point and click adventure game. Guide a young woman through a nightmarish space station as she tries to uncover why she's there and how she can escape.
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Cosplay Maker
Single-player alternative to Kairo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Kairo.
A cosplay management and dating simulation.