Single-player games like Return to Ash
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Return to Ash, 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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Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
When your beloved wants to abandon his personality and become an absolutely ordinary person, what do you do? Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man is an young adult romantic story about transgender identity, exploration of masculinity, and mutual understanding.
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Open Spaces SE
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
- 4
The Wreck
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
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Sigh of the Abyss
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
Embrace the monster within in this dark fantasy visual novel with inclusive romances. Befriend charming allies, defy bitter rivals, fall in love. Your choices will save or condemn mortals, shaping the fate of a city as beautiful as it is cruel.
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Life is Strange: True Colors
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
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A YEAR OF SPRINGS
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
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Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
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In Stars And Time
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
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BAD END THEATER
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
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Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
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Neversong
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.
- 14
The King's Bird
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Escape into a world kept secret by a tyrant, and discover the truth about your freedom. Run, jump, and fly through forgotten lost kingdoms with a uniquely momentum-based flying mechanic.
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Lifeless Moon
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
During an expedition to the Moon, two astronauts find themselves in a familiar town back on Earth. They soon discover the town is the beginning of a strange and mysterious journey...
- 16
Half Past Fate
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
Love is in the air, but work, life, and spicy Ramen keep getting in the way! From 8 hours to 8 years, this time-jumping saga will change the way you feel about fate forever.
- 17
Land of Screens
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return to Ash.
When Holland’s social media is lit ablaze by a recent breakup, she embarks on a new mission to ditch the social media saturation and discover some real-world relationships among a Land of Screens.
- 18
Pixel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Return to Ash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A non-shooting shoot 'em up where you must grow, make friends, and survive together.