Single-player games like The Mind of Marlo
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Mind of Marlo, 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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How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness
Single-player alternative to The Mind of Marlo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mind of Marlo.
Harold Fletcher has been grounded to his bedroom for over 30 years. Join award-winning journalist Nigel Wimble as he discovers how one man has coped with the boredom and loneliness in this one of a kind, FREE, documentary film simulator!
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Mayfly
Single-player alternative to The Mind of Marlo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mind of Marlo.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this short narrative exploration game.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to The Mind of Marlo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mind of Marlo.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to The Mind of Marlo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mind of Marlo.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to The Mind of Marlo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mind of Marlo.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Home
Single-player alternative to The Mind of Marlo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mind of Marlo.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
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Cats and the Other Lives
Single-player alternative to The Mind of Marlo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mind of Marlo.
Part interactive fiction, part Felis domesticus adventure, “Cats and the Other Lives” explores the reunion of a broken family from the perspective of their house cat, Aspen.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to The Mind of Marlo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mind of Marlo.
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.