Single-player games like RUNT
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to RUNT, 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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Echoes
Single-player alternative to RUNT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RUNT.
Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
- 2
Astiel le Voleur - Le Mystère du Amaad
Single-player alternative to RUNT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with RUNT.
We have no news of our agents who went on a mission to Amaad... You are therefore sent to the other end of the Empire, to investigate their disappearance. In this distant world, you will have to observe, think, and find the clues allowing you to carry out your investigation!
- 3
Deathwish Bloom
Single-player alternative to RUNT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RUNT.
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel, play as Sky, a love-struck impostor scientist. Survive your own secrets in a quake-ridden post-apocalyptic world. Shape bonds with characters whose obsessions can both aid and destroy your desperate bid to recreate a cure that only you know existed.
- 4
Evidence Officer
Single-player alternative to RUNT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RUNT.
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
- 5
Matchmaking for Ghosts
Single-player alternative to RUNT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RUNT.
Matchmaking for Ghosts is an atmospheric visual novel with horror elements and themes of love and loss, built around a unique multi-protagonist system that lets players experience the afterlife through the eyes of every ghost. Match ghosts together for love, or for chaos. The choice is yours.
- 6
Omen Exitio: Hunger
Single-player alternative to RUNT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RUNT.
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
- 7
Luce Spenta
Single-player alternative to RUNT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RUNT.
A gothic psychological visual novel where you decide who deserves forgiveness… and who deserves condemnation. Explore the lives of five souls, confront unsettling truths, and make choices that will shape your ultimate fate. Every choice is a reflection. Every judgment carries a sentence.
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Gloom and Doom
Single-player alternative to RUNT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RUNT.
Gloom and Doom is a visual novel throwback to 90s slacker movies - complete with the solitude and sarcastic retorts - but with a supernatural twist. Push a powerful but unmotivated wraith to complete his stagnated quest to enter heaven, while trying to kill the suicidal but unkillable Doom Bringer.