Single-player games like Mai Pillow Smash
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Mai Pillow Smash, 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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Everliving Town
Single-player alternative to Mai Pillow Smash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
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Between the notes
Single-player alternative to Mai Pillow Smash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.
A mystical psychological thriller set in the quiet village of Klavishne. Talk to the locals, learn stories, enjoy the atmosphere, pick up the pieces. But find out: who is the woman in the portrait and what happened to her?
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Five Elements Chess
Single-player alternative to Mai Pillow Smash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.
A spell-duel game that combines the Five Elements theory and match-three gameplay.
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Crescent Roll
Single-player alternative to Mai Pillow Smash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.
The all-in-one, super-sweet, physics-based, gravity-altering, action-packed, fully-customizable, bite-sized 2D marble racing game.
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rook
Single-player alternative to Mai Pillow Smash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
rook is a chess deckbuilding roguelike. cover your board in stickers and stack spare tiles to supercharge the cascading chaos and watch your scores go exponential, maybe then you might just survive the gauntlet.
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The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to Mai Pillow Smash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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AMEN 11 11
Single-player alternative to Mai Pillow Smash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.
AMEN 11 11 is a hidden object adventure game set in an atmosphere of apocalypse and psychological horror. The player's task is to find objects hidden on the maps.
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Papetura
Single-player alternative to Mai Pillow Smash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.