Single-player games like Distant Lands: Earendel
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Distant Lands: Earendel, 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 Last Campfire
Single-player alternative to Distant Lands: Earendel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Distant Lands: Earendel.
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
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Closer the Distance
Single-player alternative to Distant Lands: Earendel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Lands: Earendel.
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
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Arise: A Simple Story
Single-player alternative to Distant Lands: Earendel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Distant Lands: Earendel.
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
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South of the Circle
Single-player alternative to Distant Lands: Earendel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Distant Lands: Earendel.
South of the Circle is a deep narrative experience of the emerging relationship between Peter and Clara, Cambridge academics involved in a political conflict. The story focuses on promises made in between career and true love, where our choices burdened by our past seem to be illusory.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Distant Lands: Earendel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Lands: Earendel.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Sunlight
Single-player alternative to Distant Lands: Earendel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Distant Lands: Earendel.
Traverse a harmonious hand painted forest in this first person hike. ☀️The trees guide you with gentle whispers, as you explore a philosophical story.
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VIDEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to Distant Lands: Earendel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Lands: Earendel.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
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My Time at Sandrock
Single-player alternative to Distant Lands: Earendel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Distant Lands: Earendel.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!