Single-player games like Fran Bow
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Fran Bow, 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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Little Misfortune
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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Detention
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
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Slender Threads
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
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Mouthwashing
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Downfall
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
There is nothing Joe wouldn't do for his wife. But as they try to save their marriage with a romantic getaway, things go from bad to worse, and from worse... to insanity...
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Alice: Madness Returns
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Fran Bow.
Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Fran Bow.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Okami HD
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Fran Bow.
Experience the critically acclaimed masterpiece with its renowned Sumi-e ink art style in breathtaking high resolution.
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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The Silent Age
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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Agatha Knife
Single-player alternative to Fran Bow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fran Bow.
Embark on a whimsically twisted adventure with Agatha, a child torn between her love for eating meat and her friendships with animals. Join her as she discovers religion and creates her own, Carnivorism, to convince animals that the sacrifice of their flesh is the secret to their eternal happiness.