Single-player games like What Remains of Edith Finch
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to What Remains of Edith Finch, 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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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Lost Brothers
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
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Home is Where One Starts...
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
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The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
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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The Berlin Apartment
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Ghost on the Shore
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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Stray
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Before Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
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The Unfinished Swan
Single-player alternative to What Remains of Edith Finch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Remains of Edith Finch.
From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.