Single-player games like Year Walk
Below are 13 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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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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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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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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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
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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Journal
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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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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Paratopic
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.
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Detention
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
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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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.
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Simogo Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Year Walk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Walk.
From cute arcade novelties to innovative text-based thrillers and acclaimed fourth wall-breaking stories, Simogo Legacy Collection is an eclectic celebration of Simogo's past, featuring faithful renditions of seven games released on mobile platforms between 2010 and 2015.