Single-player games like Empathy: Path of Whispers
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Empathy: Path of Whispers, 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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The Last Night Train
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
A story-driven puzzle adventure about Ovid searching for Thera, his love who vanished aboard a train where the night never ends—but what if she was never the one he needed to find?
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Sublustrum
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
Step into the space between subconscious and reality. Explore strange liminal worlds, solve sound-driven puzzles, and unravel the secrets behind the enigmatic device left by a vanished scientist.
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The Button Effect
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
Every button has a purpose. In this short, minimalist first-person puzzler you explore a dense, interwoven architecture – a museum, full of hidden connections and spatial insights.
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
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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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
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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Eschaton
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
Eschaton is a short, experimental, surreal first-person exploration game. Explore the 'aftermath' of a cult ritual in the grounds of a manor in the remote and picturesque Scottish Highlands.
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Before Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
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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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Empathy: Path of Whispers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empathy: Path of Whispers.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.