Single-player games like JELLYFISH
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to JELLYFISH, 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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Transit
Single-player alternative to JELLYFISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with JELLYFISH.
Transit is a dark narrative adventure starring a sarcastic sock puppet in a world looping itself to death. Ride midnight trains through collapsing timelines, free traumatised souls, and search for your sister lost inside the loop.
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Bochi Collection
Single-player alternative to JELLYFISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with JELLYFISH.
A short and unconventional anthology exploring abandonment, depression, domestic abuse, and acceptance. These strange vignettes made with passion use unique mechanics to tell personal stories that linger. Perfect for players who seek sincere, bittersweet experiences.
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Tianfang Funland
Single-player alternative to JELLYFISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with JELLYFISH.
After being stranded in a decaying amusement park, an elementary school student and his estranged older brother discover that the city they grew up in has been tampered with. Tianfang Funland is a surreal adventure game with retro game visuals that bring players to 2010s Beijing.
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Mayfly
Single-player alternative to JELLYFISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with JELLYFISH.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this focussed narrative exploration game.
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Springs, Eternal
Single-player alternative to JELLYFISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with JELLYFISH.
Explore a mysterious hot springs in the dead of night and meet the other lost souls who are drawn to this place.
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Do Not Buy This Game
Single-player alternative to JELLYFISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with JELLYFISH.
Are you really reading this to find out more? ...FINE! If you DO buy this game, expect me to narrate in your ear for around 2 hours about your poor life choices, all while I'll try to create something resembling a game for you to walk around in.
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Vestige
Single-player alternative to JELLYFISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with JELLYFISH.
Vestige is a third‑person narrative adventure where you explore a mysterious island to piece together the fragments of a forgotten past. Discover buried memories and confront the emotions that shaped Paul’s life.
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Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss
Single-player alternative to JELLYFISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with JELLYFISH.
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.