Single-player games like The Witch's Yarn
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Witch's Yarn, 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 The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witch's Yarn.
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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Loretta
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witch's Yarn.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
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Anxiety Puppy
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witch's Yarn.
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
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looK INside - Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witch's Yarn.
In a book found in the attic, Manon discovers the past of her family members through their memories, their gestures, their quirks and their little secrets.
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The Miskatonic
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witch's Yarn.
Explore the most prestigious occult school in North America, The Miskatonic University, in a hilarious dark comedy set after the Lovecraft canon, in which the greatest threat to mankind is its own ambitions.
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The Wreck
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witch's Yarn.
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
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Farnham Fables
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witch's Yarn.
When Naigye and her niece Cally visit the castle, a surprise encounter with King Farnham leads to a short story about his three sons visiting a village of native lizard people.
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Journal
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Witch's Yarn.
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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7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch's Yarn.
What Ancients Begat is a complete (~15 hour) game of family generations surviving the rise of western civilization. Survival is the ultimate goal. The sub-goals, you choose, build their story.Experience an abstract telling of the lives of our earliest recorded ancestors.
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Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!™
Single-player alternative to The Witch's Yarn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch's Yarn.
"Well behaved women seldom make history." - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich This is the game where good girls get better by being bad! In the 1920s, young women had a chance to change society--by misbehaving. Gather a gang of girls. Explore. Battle petty townsfolk with quick, naughty games: Fib, Flirt, Taunt...