Single-player games like The Vanishing Memories
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Vanishing Memories, 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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RUIN: 35th Anniversary - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
RUIN is a Point-&-Click Adventure set in a cyber-fantasy world of kingdoms and ancient relics. Journey through this mysterious land, behold its wonders, and ponder 35 years of mysteries.
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Empathy: Path of Whispers
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
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EMOTIONLESS : The Last Ticket
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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The Last Case of John Morley
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
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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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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Subway Outbreak
Single-player alternative to The Vanishing Memories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Vanishing Memories.
In Subway Outbreak, defend and rebuild your metro station against mutant hordes in this pixel strategy game. Manage tasks like fortifying defenses, launching assaults, and gathering resources to survive 30 days of increasingly fierce attacks. Lose by death or generator destruction.