Single-player games like My Dear Emma
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to My Dear Emma, 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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It Happened At Night
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
It Happened At Night is a short horror game where the player must complete basic objectives to advance the story and immerse themselves through the eyes of the protagonist.
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Riven
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
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What Happened to Lily?
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
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The Stillness of the Wind
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.
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ПОСЛЕДНИЙ ДЕНЬ В УРЮПИНСКЕ
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
THE LAST DAY IN URYUPINSK is an atmospheric walk through the post-Soviet courtyard to depressive music.
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Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
Welcome to Regilus, a paradise planet turned into a popular tourist destination! But your holiday adventure soon turned into a nightmare. Stranded on an alien planet you need to find your way out. Remember though, not everything here is as it seems.
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As Long As You're Here
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
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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The Haunting of Joni Evers
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
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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Absinth
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
A psychological first-person horror experience. Set in California, USA, blurring the line between game and reality. Confront the events which completely changed Zane Zaminsky´s life.