Single-player games like About an Elf
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to About an Elf, 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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CAT Interstellar: Recast
Single-player alternative to About an Elf — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The first iteration in a fight for Android freedom.
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Super Seducer : How to Talk to Girls
Single-player alternative to About an Elf — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with About an Elf.
Learn state-of-the-art seduction secrets from the master himself, Richard La Ruina, in this incredibly valuable live action seduction simulator.
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Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno
Single-player alternative to About an Elf — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
Patches is dragged to school for the first ever cat-and-dog school day! All he needs to do is get this damn collar off and wreck some havoc! Will he prove cats and dogs can get along, or will he make this the Purrfect Apawcalypse?
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Swordbreaker The Game
Single-player alternative to About an Elf — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
The Swordbreaker game is interactive fiction with lots of illustrations where you and you alone get to choose the storyline and the ending!
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QUIET DAN
Single-player alternative to About an Elf — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.
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ghostpia Season One
Single-player alternative to About an Elf — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with About an Elf.
"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.
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Tamarindos Freaking Dinner
Single-player alternative to About an Elf — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
Mascot Horror in a 90´s escape room! deliver your pizza order to Tagomago´s Mansion, but be careful, dinner is not the pizza..its YOU! escape from this haunted house and his 7 cannibalish inhabitants in a time loop with more than 25 endings! EVERY MONTH NEW ROOMS AND ENDINGS ADDED! (◣__◢ )
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Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
Single-player alternative to About an Elf — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.