Single-player games like Once Alive
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Once Alive, 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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As Long As You're Here
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
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EDENGATE: The Edge of Life
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Once Alive.
Mia Lorenson, wakes up in an abandoned hospital full of questions. What happened to her? What happened to the world? Edengate: The Edge of Life is an interactive experience reflecting on feelings of uncertainty, isolation and hope in the face of devastation.
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The Haunting of Joni Evers
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
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The Midnight Walk
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
Follow The Midnight Walk in a dark adventure from the minds behind Lost in Random. Befriend a lost lantern creature and light your way through a world of wonder and terror. Outsmart monsters and marvel at details in a landscape handcrafted with real clay and animated in a stop motion style.
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Quern - Undying Thoughts
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Once Alive.
Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.
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Empathy: Path of Whispers
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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The Berlin Apartment
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Once Alive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Alive.
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.