Single-player games like Home is Where One Starts...
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Home is Where One Starts..., 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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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
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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Lost Brothers
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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The First Tree
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.
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Portrait of a Torn
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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We Harvest Shadows
Single-player alternative to Home is Where One Starts... — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Home is Where One Starts....
A single-player, first-person farming horror allegory. Become a recluse, build up your farm, and survive the lonely nights.