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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 — Steam game cover

    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?

    2027IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sublustrum — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Button Effect — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Old City: Leviathan — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014IndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anamorphine — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Eschaton — Steam game cover

    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.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Before Your Eyes — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Obduction — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Everybody's Gone to the Rapture — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →