Single-player games like By Your Name
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to By Your Name, 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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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
Single-player alternative to By Your Name — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Alter Animus
Single-player alternative to By Your Name — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with By Your Name.
Alter Animus is a turn-based RPG with horror elements, mysteries to unveil and a character-driven narrative. It's up to you if these unforeseen and unthinkable circumstances make these people truly come together or if they succumb to the consequences of their actions.
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GraveBond
Single-player alternative to By Your Name — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
You play as a young child whose dog has died. Head down to Necros, the realm of the underworld, to find your dog and bring it back home!
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The Outbound Ghost
Single-player alternative to By Your Name — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.
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Blood Lily Ghoststories
Single-player alternative to By Your Name — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
A horror game about a needy female ghost. A trio of close-knit occult club girls gather late at night to enjoy telling ghost stories. Little do they know that Miss Choker, a ghost that targets girls, is just dying to appear...
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Corpse Party (2021)
Single-player alternative to By Your Name — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with By Your Name.
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
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Enigma of Fear
Single-player alternative to By Your Name — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to By Your Name — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By Your Name.
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.