Single-player games like Elegy for a Dead World
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Elegy for a Dead World, 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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apartment: a separated place
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
Nick Connor just got dumped. His girlfriend of four years has left him behind. Explore the wreckage of their relationship by uncovering the memories scattered throughout their apartment. Venture outside to visit his neighbors — strangers living within the same apartment complex.
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Where the Bees Make Honey
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
Where the Bees Make Honey tells a story about reflecting on different moments from a childhood, which are played and experienced from an adult perspective. At its core Where The Bees Make Honey is a narrative puzzle adventure game, with playable childhood moments filtered throughout.
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The Appraiser
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
The Appraiser is a short, first person narrative game. As an art appraiser you will sell the art collection of a dying man. Each painting is by 4 famed artist. They have a story to tell you, but only if you choose to listen.
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Black Cycle
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
Consumers have power. A short walking simulator game that makes you think a little about how we usually consume.
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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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The Novelist
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.
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KARMA: The Dark World
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
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Monster Loves You!
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elegy for a Dead World.
Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!
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AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elegy for a Dead World.
BASE jump through a floating city, creating your own stunts to delight your fans. Use quick reflexes to negotiate the intricate tangle of girders that make up the floating city. Flip protesters off for points!
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The Wonderful End of the World
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elegy for a Dead World.
You can't save the whole world. It's going to be eaten by a mythological demon with the head of a fish. But as a puppet that absorbs all it touches, you can try to rescue as much of Earth's greatness as you can before the end arrives. In the beginning, you roam the Earth, capable of absorbing only the tiniest of objects.
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AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elegy for a Dead World.
82 remastered levels from the original and 43 brand new ones that are twice as fast!
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Drunken Robot Pornography
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elegy for a Dead World.
Bullet-hell, boss-battle, first-person shooter, with giant-robots, martinis and jetpacks. YES. Drink the cocktails. Fight the titans. Make your own Titans. Drink your friend's cocktails.
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1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elegy for a Dead World.
Battle your favorite drum 'n' bass track, or relax as you fly through that trance album. "Ugly Baby" takes your MP3 music library and creates floating cities for you to explore. Ten years after the events in Dejobaan's award-winning AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!
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Tick Tock Bang Bang
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elegy for a Dead World.
An FPS where you can freeze time. Gunfights, 90-car pileups, and giant robots in slow motion. Make your own levels. From the award-winning creators of Aaaaa! and Drunken Robot Pornography.
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20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
Single-player alternative to Elegy for a Dead World — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.