Single-player games like Virginia
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Virginia, 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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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
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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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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The Occupation
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England on Saturday 24th October, 1987.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
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.
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Draugen
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
Draugen is a single-player, first-person Fjord Noir mystery set in 1920s Norway. Explore a forgotten coastal village in your search for your missing sister, accompanied by your independent and enigmatic young ward. Norwegian Game of the Year 2019.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
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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The Fidelio Incident
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
The Fidelio Incident is a single-player, first-person thriller set off the coast of Iceland. Inspired by Beethoven's only opera Fidelio. After a violent plane crash, Stanley must search a desolate frozen island in search of his wife Leonore while covering up any traces of their bloody Irish past.
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True Detective Solitaire
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Virginia.
How do you solve true detective's case? It's elementary! Complete 120 unique solitaire levels! Choose your settings and play!
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True Detective Solitaire 2
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Virginia.
The True Detective is on a new case! A bank robbery case! 120 solitaire levels – collect golden cards and catch the villain
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Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
Nightmare is a FPS horror game about paranormal events that a police officer encounters in an abandoned house. With its tense atmosphere, it offers the player both excitement and an intense fear experience.
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Last Stop
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Virginia.
Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.
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POLARIS™
Single-player alternative to Virginia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Virginia.
Team up and take flight in this sci-fi co-op shooter with fully destructible environments. Soar through dynamic open levels using powerful abilities, master advanced weapons and vehicles, and lay waste to the armies of a hostile colonizing threat - defend your home worlds!