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
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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.
- 2
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. ^-^
- 3
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.
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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.
- 5
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.
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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.
- 7
Tide Girl: Phenomena
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
Enjoy the murder by the word.
- 8
Lazarus A.D. 2222
Single-player alternative to Helping Ani — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
The final part of the Sons of Welder game series, set in a dystopian universe, which uniquely combines games from the Magnus series. A game that you can experience on two levels. Hand-drawn motion comics. A metaphorical journey into oneself. A mystical experience with a touch of good humor.