Single-player games like The Life You Missed
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Life You Missed, 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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Silent Trip: Until We Meet
Single-player alternative to The Life You Missed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Life You Missed.
A story-rich interactive fiction about two people who find comfort in each other, and the quiet things they never say out loud.
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Single-player alternative to The Life You Missed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Life You Missed.
A first-person psychological horror game about grief, obsession, and love. Sleep to enter dreams, take control of them, and descend into deeper layers where time moves slower. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery of a grieving father who created a world frozen in time.
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REDLINE — Strings of Fate
Single-player alternative to The Life You Missed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Life You Missed.
A sci-fi otome game where your choices shape love — and the future of society.
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ORMS
Single-player alternative to The Life You Missed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Life You Missed.
An atmospheric narrative puzzle-adventure set on a surreal Nordic island. Guide young Sam and his companion Kira through two shifting realities - switching between a world of terrifying shadows and a world of light to solve puzzles and reignite the broken lighthouse
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Undergone
Single-player alternative to The Life You Missed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Life You Missed.
Explore a breathtaking world through photography and uncover the mystery behind its transformation. Each photo you take, and every step you make reveals the truth about your past and memories left behind. It is not just about taking photos, It is about what you choose to see.
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Mayfly
Single-player alternative to The Life You Missed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Life You Missed.
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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Fast Radio Burst
Single-player alternative to The Life You Missed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Life You Missed.
You took the job to escape. Then the light descended. Fast Radio Burst is a first-person narrative parkour platformer where unexplained cosmic beams transport you into surreal, liminal memories.
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The Unclosed Case
Single-player alternative to The Life You Missed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Life You Missed.
A psychological detective thriller. Everyone has already decided who did it. You don't have to. Investigate a double death, question everyone who loved them, and discover how much you can trust your own mind.