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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Blinding Oversight
Single-player alternative to My Dear Emma — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
You play as Emma, who wakes up in an abandoned house without any prior memory of how she ended up there. Investigate your surroundings, uncover the mysteries of the house and connect memories from your past as you try to escape in this short, first person atmospheric horror game.
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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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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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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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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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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.