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.
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Ranked picks
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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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MY DAUGHTER IS A CULTIST! SE
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
YOU'RE JUST A NORMAL GUY TRYING TO GET SOME SLEEP. YOU HEAR A BUMP IN THE NIGHT. WHAT WAS THAT? WHY IS YOUR DAUGHTER ACTING SO WEIRD? IS IT PARENTHOOD OR A HORRIBLE CURIOSITY THAT COMPELS YOU TO FIND OUT? A Short horror experience.
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Minerva (2015)
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Free To Play with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
first-person walking simulator. explore the forbidden exoplanet, uncover the dark secret.
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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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Insanias
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Insanias is a psychological horror game where you will have to explore what happened to find a hidden truth. To do this, you will have to be able to control your sanity to avoid falling into the madness that lurks in every corner. Are you ready to face your fears and discover the truth?
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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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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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Kona
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Esther: Landmark Edition.
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
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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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Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Dear Esther: Landmark Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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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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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!