Single-player games like Journal
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Journal, 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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Leila
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face. Solve story-driven puzzles, relive fragile memories, and discover a deeply personal journey that may feel more familiar than you expect.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
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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Year Walk
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.
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Beyond Eyes
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
Beyond Eyes is a modern fairy tale about finding courage and friendship. Step by step, uncover an incredible world, carefully guiding Rae, a young blind girl, on a life changing journey.
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Sumire
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.
- 6
A Bird Story
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.
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If Found...
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Journal.
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
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Home is Where One Starts...
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
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the white chamber
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Journal.
Sci-fi horror anime point and click adventure game. Guide a young woman through a nightmarish space station as she tries to uncover why she's there and how she can escape.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Journal.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
- 12
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
The last game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, beautifully remastered! As the intergalactic villains who seek the Devil’s Toybox close in and Max’s psychic abilities grow beyond his control, the Freelance Police will come up against their most frightening adversary yet: the power of Max’s mind.
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Close Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
An anthology of 7 horror tales within a connected universe. Join a murderous marshmallow bound by their past down an atmospheric descent, brought into question by an odd game show host. Follow a Witch trying to seduce her love with sweet things. Plus 5 other surprisingly twisted yet emotional tales.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Journal.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- 15
Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
- 16
Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Journal.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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Kairo
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Journal.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
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Cosplay Maker
Single-player alternative to Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Journal.
A cosplay management and dating simulation.