Single-player games like Emily is Away
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Emily is Away, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Emily is Away page.
Ranked picks
- 1
Over The Phone
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Emily is Away.
A short talking sim with choices. Get to know Harper over a handful of voice-acted calls and text chats.
- 2
Sailors of Newport
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
There are rumours of homosexuals in the Navy, and it’s your mission to date them! Sailors of Newport is a point-and-click puzzle game set in 1920s Rhode Island. Infiltrate the gay community, choose who to seduce and who to report, solve puzzles, and grapple with your own burgeoning desires.
- 3
Between the Lines
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Emily is Away.
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
- 4
Yonder World: Interview with the Void
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Emily is Away.
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
- 5
Pick My Heart Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
Fall in love… with a goddess?! In this visual novel divinely beautiful girls will steal your heart!
- 6
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
- 7
Emily is Away <3
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
- 8
Emily is Away Too
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
- 9
To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
- 10
The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
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.
- 11
Undertale
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Emily is Away.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
- 12
Pony Island
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Emily is Away.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
- 13
Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
- 14
![Tale of REN ~ [Searching for HEART droplets] ~ — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2286070/96262d33322ad8b217d2c081d8201e0aa5ecad29/header.jpg?t=1775513918)
Tale of REN ~ [Searching for HEART droplets] ~
Single-player alternative to Emily is Away — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Emily is Away.
I am Mizu Ren Nanami... As a resident of the land of Ren, the time has come for me to embark on a mission to win the hearts of the people in Rostania, the city to which I’ve been assigned. Here, I’ll uncover secrets I never knew existed.