Single-player games like Oxenfree
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Oxenfree, 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 II: Lost Signals
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
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Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
A story of a father and a daughter. Explore a suburban street trapped in a single, repeating night. Follow dream sequences, collect missing sins, and make choices that shape what happens next. No jumpscares. No monsters. This isn’t a haunting. This is devotion.
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Virginia
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.
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Scarlet Hollow — Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
The free-to-play first episode of a horror-mystery game with dark humor and hand-drawn art by Black Tabby Games. Note — we are retiring this store page. While the build here is still up-to-date, please download the DEMO from the main Scarlet Hollow store page. Thank you and have fun!
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Interference: Dead Air
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
All hell's breaking loose in a mysterious research facility and the only person who can save the day is the night shift security guard in the booth outside. Remotely control systems, guide scientists to safety or just… goof off? You’re not in danger. Yet.
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The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oxenfree.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
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Water Delivery
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?
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THRESHOLD
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oxenfree.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
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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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
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 Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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INSIDE
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
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Afterparty
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.