Single-player games like TIMEframe
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to TIMEframe, 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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The Elision Effect
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with TIMEframe.
The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.
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Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIMEframe.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
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Beyond Eyes
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIMEframe.
Beyond Eyes is a modern fairy tale about finding courage and friendship. Step by step, uncover an incredible world, carefully guiding Rae, a young blind girl, on a life changing journey.
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Before I Forget
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with TIMEframe.
A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.
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Drizzlepath
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with TIMEframe.
In Drizzlepath you are set on a journey to the top of the Mountain of Fire. It aims to be an atmospheric, relaxed and enigmatic experience. Downloadable soundtrack included.
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Sunset
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with TIMEframe.
It's 1972 and a military coup has rocked Anchuria. You, Angela Burnes, are trapped in the metropolitan capital of San Bavón. Your paradise has turned into a warzone. You take up a job as a housekeeper. Every week, an hour before sunset, you clean the swanky bachelor pad of the wealthy Gabriel Ortega.
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Home is Where One Starts...
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIMEframe.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
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The Gap
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with TIMEframe.
Driven by a rare neurological affliction plaguing his family, Joshua has to recover his memories by exploring parallel realities through déjà vu. Facing the innermost depths of his past – moments both joyous and painful – seems to be the only way to get his life and family back together.
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MirrorMoon EP
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIMEframe.
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
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NaissanceE
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIMEframe.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIMEframe.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Journey
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIMEframe.
Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
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The Monster Inside
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIMEframe.
A film noir style audio-visual novella. A mysterious woman... a string of murders... and a man with a hidden past.
- 15
Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Rite of Passage: The Lost Tides Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to TIMEframe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with TIMEframe.
Why has the Everlast returned after twenty years at sea?