Single-player games like Retention
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Retention, 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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Journal
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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One Night Stand
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?
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No Longer Home
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
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Home
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
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Loretta
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
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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Centum
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Retention.
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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Burly Men at Sea
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Retention.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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Trauma
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.
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Make it indie!
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.
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Bacteria
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
'Bacteria' - A relaxing puzzle game based on the rules of the cellular automaton ‘Life’ devised by John Horton Conway in 1970.
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Energy Balance
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
Energy Balance is a number puzzle. You have to swap power units in such a way that their sums form correct chains both vertically and horizontally. The game is easy to learn, but very hard to master. So, are you ready to peep under the hood of an alien spaceship?
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Energy Cycle
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
'Energy Cycle' – new puzzle game from the developers of ‘Energy Balance’. When you click each cell on the game field - it changes color, and the colors of adjacent cells horizontally and vertically. Your task to bring all the cells to the same color. Sounds pretty easy, but try to do it!
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Energy Invasion
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
Energy Invasion - an arcade game inspired by the classic Breakout. Unlike the original game, your ball does not break blocks on its own, but can launch missiles in a chosen direction.