Single-player games like Motherheart
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Motherheart, 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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Wild East: The Straw Man
Single-player alternative to Motherheart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
A 2D point-and-click mystery set in the wild 1990s of Slovakia and Czechia. As two young reporters, follow a dead straw man, missing files, locked doors, and paper trails into a case that was never meant to be opened.
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Paradise Killer
Single-player alternative to Motherheart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
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浮游
Single-player alternative to Motherheart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
紧锁的木门，消失的同学，神秘的鬼怪。爸爸妈妈去哪里了？我为什么在流眼泪…在世纪初县城的家中探索并重拾回忆，拼凑出所有谜团的答案。
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Heaven Does Not Respond
Single-player alternative to Motherheart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
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Burden Street Station
Single-player alternative to Motherheart — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
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Hypnospace Outlaw
Single-player alternative to Motherheart — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
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Lord Winklebottom Investigates
Single-player alternative to Motherheart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
It’s the 1920s and the world’s foremost detective is about to embark on his most challenging case yet. Thankfully, in this world that’s not quite like our own, there’s nobody better to crack the case than the great detective and gentleman giraffe, Lord Winklebottom.
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Rainswept
Single-player alternative to Motherheart — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.