Single-player games like A Normal Lost Phone
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to A Normal Lost Phone, 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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Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
Explore the social life of Laura in this spiritual sequel to A Normal Lost Phone.
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Escape Tales: The Awakening
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
“Escape Tales: The Awakening” is a haunting narrative puzzle game that plunges you into a world shrouded in darkness and mystery. Immerse yourself in a gripping tale of loss, redemption, and the echoes of a forgotten past based on the well-received escape room card game.
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Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
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Rainy Season
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
This is a story about an ordinary family spending time at home during the rain.
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Until Then
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
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Replica
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with A Normal Lost Phone.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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Mainlining
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.
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Uplink
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
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Emily is Away
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
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hack_me
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Hack_me is a hacker simulator game. The main objective in game – is to hack big companies's servers to show people that there is nothing in this world that protected on 100%. You’ll need to use your cmd, bruteforce, SQL-injectors and other programs to hack servers.
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one night, hot springs
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Alt-Frequencies
Single-player alternative to A Normal Lost Phone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Normal Lost Phone.
An audio mystery set in a time loop. Record, rewind time and broadcast snippets of radio shows to expose radio hosts, conspiracy theorists and politicians.