Single-player games like Life is Strange - Episode 1
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Life is Strange - Episode 1, 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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Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
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Life is Strange 2
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
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Quantum Break
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
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Twelve Minutes
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
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The Sexy Brutale
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Elsinore
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.
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Eternal Threads
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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The Longest Journey
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
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The Walking Dead: Season Two
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
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Twin Peaks VR
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
Twin Peaks VR brings people into the world of Twin Peaks using the immersive technology of VR. Based on the iconic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, players will be able to experience several locations from the show including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff's Department, Glass Box Observation and more.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Spec Ops: The Line
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.
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Vampyr
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
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Remember Me
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
Remember Me™ is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.
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Tell Me Why
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
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The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange - Episode 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange - Episode 1.
Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2