Single-player games like Pillar
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Pillar, 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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Where the Bees Make Honey
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
Where the Bees Make Honey tells a story about reflecting on different moments from a childhood, which are played and experienced from an adult perspective. At its core Where The Bees Make Honey is a narrative puzzle adventure game, with playable childhood moments filtered throughout.
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Back Then
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
Back Then is a first-person narrative game taking place in the mind of Thomas Eilian, an elderly writer diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
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Forgetter
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
Forgetter is a destructive journey of pain, memory and artistry. In the future, creative minds can be inherited by clients’ newborns. You're hired to destroy unhealthy memories in the minds of deceased artists. Remember to smash everything. Don't let the artists’ remaining consciousness stop you.
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Tonight, I Die in My Sleep
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
Navigate broken memories in a powerless fantasy fueled equally by nightmares and confessional poetry. A narrative experiment in adapting dreams and poems to the medium of video games.
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Cherophobia
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
You find yourself stranded in a forest after your car breaks down. A short psychological horror game.
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Fourth Time Around
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.
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Color Soul: Memories
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
A short stylized game set in a colorless world... in the beginning. Unlock colors as you visit the three different areas of the world and unveil the question of who you are and where you are from after losing your memories.
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The Beginner's Guide
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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The Path of Motus
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillar.
Will you let other people stop you from pursuing your dreams? The Path of Motus is a game where your words have the power to destroy.
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Dissent on Mars
Single-player alternative to Pillar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pillar.
A sci-fi life sim where you create new societies unlike anything on Earth. Design your economy and government, build your colony, and experience your choices firsthand by living as a colonist. Will your society become a living utopia, or another dystopia?