Single-player games like Stories Untold
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Stories Untold, 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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Observation
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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Detention
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stories Untold.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
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SIMULACRA
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
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STASIS: BONE TOTEM
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...
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The Night is Grey
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stories Untold.
Graham’s alone in a forest filled with strange wolves. While he’s fleeing for his life he finds a lost girl in an abandoned lodge that won’t survive without his help. Try to find their way to safety in this slow-burning cinematic thriller filled with puzzles, hand-drawn animation and lots of mystery
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stories Untold.
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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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stories Untold.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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The Last Door - Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stories Untold.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
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Cooking Companions
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?
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LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
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The Beginner's Guide
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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Before Your Eyes
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
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SIGNALIS
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stories Untold.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stories Untold.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
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Killer Frequency
Single-player alternative to Stories Untold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Stories Untold.
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.