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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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2017IndieCasualDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Escape Tales: The Awakening — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024IndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureCasual13.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bobok — Steam game cover

    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".

    2021IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Duck Detective: The Secret Salami — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping — Steam game cover

    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!

    2025IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rainy Season — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020IndieCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Until Then — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Replica — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016IndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Her Story — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mainlining — Steam game cover

    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.

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation1.29 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Uplink — Steam game cover

    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.

    2006StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Emily is Away — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    hack_me — Steam game cover

    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.

    2017IndieSimulation5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    one night, hot springs — Steam game cover

    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...

    2018IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Life is Strange Remastered — Steam game cover

    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.

    2022ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Alt-Frequencies — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019IndieSingle-playerSimilar games →