Single-player games like Outlying Islands
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Outlying Islands, 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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Realization
Single-player alternative to Outlying Islands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Outlying Islands.
A self-staged arson at a sales center drags you into the murder case of a female sales agent. With both your career and life in shambles, you must find a way to clear your name. The path to the truth is fraught with danger. Can you rise from this abyss and reclaim the reality you once envisioned?
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戾谈
Single-player alternative to Outlying Islands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Outlying Islands.
There is no English version of this game！There is no English version of this game！You wake up in a room full of mysteries, accompanied by a beautiful girl you have met before. In the following time, you will go on a heartbeat journey to the supernatural world with her.
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Cut to the Core
Single-player alternative to Outlying Islands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
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CORPSE FACTORY
Single-player alternative to Outlying Islands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Outlying Islands.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
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Centum
Single-player alternative to Outlying Islands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
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Loretta
Single-player alternative to Outlying Islands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Outlying Islands.
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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蜉蝣之国的囚徒
Single-player alternative to Outlying Islands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Outlying Islands.
Fourteen from across the world are abruptly abducted to an isolated structure dubbed "Ephemera Manor". They are strangers, but now forced to partake in an ancient and eerie ritual—"the Feather-Burning Rite". A bloodstained drama spanning millennia has silently unfolded...
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The Chrono Jotter
Single-player alternative to Outlying Islands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Outlying Islands.
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.