Single-player games like The Beginner's Guide
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Beginner's Guide, 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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First Response
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
Welcome to your new job at the Extreme Containment Security Company! You've been selected by Malcolm Monaghan himself as the first subject in their brand new learning initiative! Upon your arrival, K.A.R.A. will guide you through the concepts of Cybersecurity and the important work you'll be doing!
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Pink Gum
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
A short and deeply emotional game experience where life itself is presented through a unique perspective.
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Mayfly
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this short narrative exploration game.
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The Simplest Game in the World
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
You can beat this game with any key on your keyboard. ANY key, I mean it.
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Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Beginner's Guide.
A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina
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The Memories That Shape Us
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours. Find the Memory Capsules to uncover the story of a person’s life from childhood to adulthood, all the joys, all the struggles, and all the lessons. How much can one take before they’ve had enough?
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
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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Cherophobia
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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The Magic Circle
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Beginner's Guide.
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?
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Thomas Was Alone
Single-player alternative to The Beginner's Guide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Beginner's Guide.
Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.