Single-player games like Her Story
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Her Story, 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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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
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The Operator
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
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IMMORTALITY
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
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Murder by Numbers
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
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The List
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
A young man is interviewed by the police only to turn up dead a week later. 3 years have passed, a special agent from Santa Fe navigates the police database in order to solve the mystery.
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Unheard - Voices of Crime
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Her Story.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Her Story.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
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Contradiction: Spot The Liar
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!
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The Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Her Story.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
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Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
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A Normal Lost Phone
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Her Story.
A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.
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Cyber Manhunt
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Her Story.
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
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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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Her Story.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to Her Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Her Story.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.