Single-player games like a permanent echo
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to a permanent echo, 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
- 1
Hillthorn
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with a permanent echo.
A disappearance in a secluded community. A mountain hiding its secrets. A detective running out of time. Welcome to Hillthorn, a dark investigation game that invites you to uncover the mystery without a single word spoken, using your skills of logic and intuition through cards.
- 2
Nirvana Noir
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with a permanent echo.
A noir adventure beyond time and space. The city of cosmic beings is under threat in two parallel realities - one where the Big Bang was never fired, the other exploding in color and sin. It’s up to you to solve the mysteries of the Bigger Bang in this follow up to the award-winning Genesis Noir.
- 3
The List
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with a permanent echo.
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.
- 4
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with a permanent echo.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
- 5
Dry Drowning
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with a permanent echo.
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
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AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with a permanent echo.
Special Agents Mizuki and Ryuki, along with their AI partners Aiba and Tama, are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings in this sequel to the critically acclaimed AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.
- 7
Alt-Frequencies
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An audio mystery set in a time loop. Record, rewind time and broadcast snippets of radio shows to expose radio hosts, conspiracy theorists and politicians.
- 8
Tails Noir
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with a permanent echo.
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
- 9
Mini Mini Golf Golf
Single-player alternative to a permanent echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with a permanent echo.
Mini Mini Golf Golf is an indie storytelling experience that goes beyond the lanes of the here and now into distant memories of a future planetary collapse. Destabilize the present and plunge into a neon psychohistory of a bizarre entity in distress. This is not a game about minigolf.