Single-player games like Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Dear Esther: Landmark Edition page.
Ranked picks
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
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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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
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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Kholat
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
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INFRA
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
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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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
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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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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The Outer Worlds
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
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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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Eastshade
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
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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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are the Nomad — an elder vampire awakening from a century-long slumber, new to the modern nights. Trapped in your Blood is a stranger’s voice. This entity, a vampire detective known as Fabien, will be your guide to 21st-century Seattle.
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Little Orpheus
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
This definitive edition of the multiple-award-winning hit by master storytellers The Chinese Room is remastered for the big screen and includes all bonus content of the original. A HERO WILL EMERGE!