Single-player games like Actual Sunlight
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Actual Sunlight, 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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A Bird Story
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
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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Keep in Mind: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
Keep in Mind follows Jonas, a man haunted by alcoholism, depression, and grief. One night, he awakens to a shadowy mirror world where beasts lurk and stars don't shine. Lost and scared, Jonas must face the twisted beasts if he ever wishes to return home and learn the truth about his darkness.
- 3
Dreadful Night at School
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Actual Sunlight.
A thriller set in the corridors of a high school during a sleepover. Experience a dark story where an ordinary sleepover turns into a fight for survival. Find the murderer before everyone loses their life!
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LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
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Journal
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
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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Corpse Party
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
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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Angels of Death Episode.Eddie
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
"The boy made up his mind to face a cruel world." The new special edition of the psychological horror-adventure game "Angels of Death", which has also been made into an anime. The past of B4 floor master Eddie is revealed...
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Actual Sunlight.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Little Red Lie
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actual Sunlight.
A contemporary adventure game about debt, family, and the truth about honesty.
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Guildmaster Story
Single-player alternative to Actual Sunlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Actual Sunlight.
A puzzle-match comedy about fame, misfortune, and working for nothing.