Single-player games like Helping Ani
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Helping Ani, 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
- 1
Century of Anticipation
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
Century of Anticipation is a short, surreal adventure about being stuck waiting for something misterious. Explore your apartment to find increasingly unusual ways to pass the time, from cooking to throwing your head through the window, while enjoying the amazing soundtrack by Brazilian indie bands.
- 2
This Is Not Your House
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
- 3
Smell like a puddle
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
— Each of us fell into a puddle. And everyone knows that you can find yourself after that... in a strange place from which there is no escape. Didn't it happen?.. Well, it's nothing — it's going to happen soon! You will have to explore your new home... and become a part of it. ^-^
- 4
CLOSER - anagnorisis
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
CLOSER - anagnorisis is a game with distinctive art and gameplay. It contains a lot of creative designs. Here you will feel the spiritual experience.
- 5
Protocol Five
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
Protocol Filve is a surreal first-person adventure with multiple endings, you will find yourself in a world where some rotten things want to kill you. Some choices along the way drastically and irreversibly change the game, leading to one of the 5 possible endings.
- 6
Cryphora
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
A remote mountain cabin, a raging snowstorm, and the line between reality and madness begins to blur. Make difficult choices, explore surreal worlds, and confront what waits in the dark.
- 7
You know my name?
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
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ISKRA
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
You take on the role of Alice, who wanders through a dark forest in search of a way out. On her journey she meets many figures — each one a reflection of her own personality, an echo of her fears, and a manifestation of her subconscious.