Single-player games like The Next One
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Next One, 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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The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham
Single-player alternative to The Next One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Next One.
Regret has chased Lilith across the years… but a chance to escape is within reach. Drawn in by a message from your estranged daughter, you must reshape reality with a mystical Film Reel to solve a mass vanishing. To erase your guilt, you'll decide what… and who… to leave on the cutting room floor.
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Life is Strange: Reunion
Single-player alternative to The Next One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Next One.
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
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Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
Single-player alternative to The Next One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Next One.
Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
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The Jewel of Monostructure
Single-player alternative to The Next One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next One.
Sanator: The Jewel of Monostructure is a dark fantasy visual novel that combines deep lore with exciting adventures. Who is behind the mysterious thefts and why are the gates of the Monostructure open again? Take control of Richard Murdock, the plague doctor, and find the answer.
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BURIED STARS
Single-player alternative to The Next One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Next One.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to The Next One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Next One.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Single-player alternative to The Next One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Next One.
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?
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Zero-Sum Heart
Single-player alternative to The Next One — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next One.
"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*? ————————————————————————— In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?