Single-player games like The Cat Lady
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Cat Lady, 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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Downfall
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...
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Lydia
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
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Lorelai
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cat Lady.
The little she had was taken away, but Lorelai refuses to give up, she will fight. And not even death will stop her from getting it all back...
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Hell Is Other People
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
A psychological horror adventure about social anxiety. Play as a girl with red hair deemed broken by a black-and-white society. Your mind is your inventory. Manage shifting mental states, befriend your unreliable Alter-Ego and decide: force yourself to conform, or isolate?
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Never Ending Nightmare
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Life has been tough for you after the tragic incident with your parents. Your way of coping has been through reliving all the good memories with them, but all the memories had a dark turn this time... will you be able to figure out why?
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ARIJIGOKU
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
A short, narrative-driven 2D pixel art adventure/horror game. Play as Erik, a man lost in grief, as you explore a secluded forest, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth. With multiple endings and deadly choices, curiosity can cost you — so save often.
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Fran Bow
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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Detention
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.
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Gods Will Be Watching
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.
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Proteus
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.
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Alexia Crow and the Cave of Heroes
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
An adventure game with hand-painted graphics and an intriguing story. It's up to you to escape from the mysterious Cave Of Heroes by solving brain-bending puzzles. Explore a game world based on Ancient Greek mythology in this fascinating and thought-provoking journey.
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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
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DISTRAINT 2
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cat Lady.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
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Burnhouse Lane
Single-player alternative to The Cat Lady — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Cat Lady.
Burnhouse Lane tells a story of Angie Weather, a one foot in the grave agency nurse attempting to complete five impossible tasks in order to win her life back. Solve puzzles, make friends and enemies, run, hide and fight in this dark adventure that'll take you on a trip to another world and back...