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Single-player games like What Was Lost

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to What Was Lost, 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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    A Week to Remember — Steam game cover

    A Week to Remember

    Single-player alternative to What Was Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.

    2027IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Frutiger Aero Horror Alpha 2 — Steam game cover

    Frutiger Aero Horror Alpha 2

    Single-player alternative to What Was Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    You flip PCs as a hobby. An unbelievable flea market find from 2015 turns into a nightmare. The moment you boot this Windows 7 setup, a blinding force sucks you straight into the monitor. Now you are trapped in the strange futuristic world of Frutiger Aero. No soul is in sight. Or so it seems...

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Xenologia — Steam game cover

    Xenologia

    Single-player alternative to What Was Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Xenologia is a fully illustrated linear visual novel set in the near future. Follow Cory, a young man who's life is falling apart, as he tries to help a stranded alien girl return home.

    AdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Halo: Campaign Evolved — Steam game cover

    Halo: Campaign Evolved

    Single-player alternative to What Was Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign, rebuilt from the ground up.

    2026ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kairos: Until the Dawn Breaks — Steam game cover

    Kairos: Until the Dawn Breaks

    Single-player alternative to What Was Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    A melancholic fantasy visual novel. Kairos, the last twilight hunter of a clan abandoned by its god, walks to the Temple of Dawn chasing the truth of a silent goddess — and what he lost along the way. They were taught to fear the night. It was the light that burned them.

    2026IndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Life is Strange: Double Exposure — Steam game cover

    Life is Strange: Double Exposure

    Single-player alternative to What Was Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?

    2024ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Life is Strange: True Colors — Steam game cover

    Life is Strange: True Colors

    Single-player alternative to What Was Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.

    2021ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    恋爱单选题 — Steam game cover

    恋爱单选题

    Single-player alternative to What Was Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Male Lord Wu worry because of an accident dying, fell into a coma. Then the mysterious female NPC appeared, creating a different space for Wu Worry to create a chance to save themselves, the protagonist of the game Wu Worry to find out his true love in the end, in order to wake up and survive.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →