Single-player games like Leaving Lyndow
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Leaving Lyndow, 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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Eastshade
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
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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Home is Where One Starts...
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
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Caligo
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
Caligo is the darkness everyone descends into one way or another, and to each of us it's something different. For some it's a short but exciting adventure, some will see it as a place to relax. Yet others will be reminded of their worst nightmare, while for a few, it might come as a revelation.
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Homesick
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
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Beyond Eyes
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
Beyond Eyes is a modern fairy tale about finding courage and friendship. Step by step, uncover an incredible world, carefully guiding Rae, a young blind girl, on a life changing journey.
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Songs of Glimmerwick
Single-player alternative to Leaving Lyndow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Leaving Lyndow.
Become immersed in a musical woodland fantasy world where casting a spell is as easy as playing a song. Attend classes, grow the university garden, make friends with classmates and townsfolk, and explore the island’s many oddities and mysteries in this story-driven witch academy RPG.