Single-player games like Night in the Woods
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Night in the Woods, 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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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Welcome to Elk
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
True stories told by real people. Welcome to Elk transforms the weird, wonderful, dark and desperate tales of the road less-traveled into an inventive, biographical adventure. This is an island like no other where drama, trauma, love and laughter hide around every corner.
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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
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Last Time I Saw You
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.
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The Night is Grey
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
Graham’s alone in a forest filled with strange wolves. While he’s fleeing for his life he finds a lost girl in an abandoned lodge that won’t survive without his help. Try to find their way to safety in this slow-burning cinematic thriller filled with puzzles, hand-drawn animation and lots of mystery
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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OneShot
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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OMORI
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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The Last Campfire
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
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TOEM: A Photo Adventure
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
Set off on a delightful expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the magical TOEM in this hand-drawn adventure game. Chat with quirky characters, solve their problems by snapping neat photos, and make your way through a relaxing landscape!
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YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience YIIK: A Postmodern RPG 1.5 (I.V) update with revamped battles and cutscenes. A child relinquishes her name for a birthday invite, hoping to find her brother. Alex's reality unravels, guided by a mysterious cat, witnessing a woman vanish, igniting an obsession that threatens his world.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Night in the Woods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Night in the Woods.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.