Single-player games like Kona
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Kona, 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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Kona II: Brume
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
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Kholat
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
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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The Painscreek Killings
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Visage
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
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Shadows of Doubt
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
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This Bed We Made
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
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Killer Frequency
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
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Arctic Awakening
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Kona — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kona.
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.