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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Alan Wake
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oxenfree.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
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 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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Enigma of Fear
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
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Observation
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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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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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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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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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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Little Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oxenfree.
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Oxenfree — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oxenfree.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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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.