Single-player games like Year Walk
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Year Walk, 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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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Fran Bow
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
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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Bulb Boy
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.
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Rusty Lake Hotel
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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The White Door
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
Enter The White Door and discover Rusty Lake’s universe in a new game with a unique style! Explore Robert Hill’s dreams and help him to find his lost memories. Can you survive the strict daily routine and bring back color to Robert's life?
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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Papo & Yo
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Sayonara Wild Hearts
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph.
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.