Single-player games like Life is Strange 2
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Life is Strange 2, 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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Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
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Tell Me Why
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
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Life is Strange: True Colors
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
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The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2
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Dispatch
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
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Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
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Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
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Life is Strange: Reunion
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
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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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
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.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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The Last of Us™ Part I
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Beyond: Two Souls
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
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Vampyr
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
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Remember Me
Single-player alternative to Life is Strange 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Life is Strange 2.
Remember Me™ is a 3rd person action adventure where players take on the role of Nilin, a former elite memory hunter with the ability to break into people’s minds and steal or even alter their memories.