Single-player games like STAY
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to STAY, 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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Advent: Dawn
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Seven strangers. One collapsed cave. No escape. A sci-fi mystery visual novel where every route to survival pulls you closer to a different companion—and a different lie. Will you unravel the mystery before the cave unravels you?
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Thorner
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
- 3
Morse Academy
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with STAY.
Three operatives return to their abandoned boarding school to hunt a sinister fugitive. As old traumas awaken and paranoia takes hold, will they survive their own fears?
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Condition Unknown
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
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I AM MILK
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
I AM MILK is a surreal, branching audio-first narrative game played through headphones with one button. Make split-second choices as a 21:30 minute story unfolds in real time, leading to more than 40 endings. DARKFIELD’s award-winning 3D sound transports you into the middle of this strange world.
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The Game of Fourtune
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
How far will you go to get your deepest wish granted? In The Game of Fourtune, help guide Clyde & Devon through this cruel game of life and death. Only one participant will get their wish granted. Four rounds and four deaths each round, are you ready to see if fortune is on your side?
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時折記 -Tokioriki-
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
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Pikabuu: STOP!
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Beni, a loving husband to Nadia and father to Kaila, always ensured his family's needs were met with simple contentment. However, one day, an unwitting decision dragged his small family into a spiral that threatens everything.
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with STAY.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
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Lifeline
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Help Taylor make life or death decisions, and face the consequences together.
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Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A new adventure for Shiren and Koppa begins!
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Escape Floor Zero
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with STAY.
Trapped in an infinite parking lot, your only escape is through Floor Zero. Detect subtle anomalies and make crucial decisions in this mind-bending, psychological horror experience. Dare to escape the unescapable? If you see an anomaly... turn back.
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TERRACOTTA
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Puzzle your way through 80+ hand-crafted levels in this uniquely challenging action-adventure game. Unleash world-shifting abilities, awaken ancient mechanisms, and defeat 8 brutal bosses - balancing cunning and force to rescue the cursed spirits of your fellow warriors.
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Frank and Drake
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Frank and Drake is a modern gothic tale that puts players at the heart of a supernatural mystery through its non-linear branching paths, mini-games and puzzles, and unique rotoscoped art. Take your time, explore, and soak up every word.
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Bighorn Ramone
Single-player alternative to STAY — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
A 1986 championship game that won’t end. Trapped inside a mascot suit you can’t escape. Perform for the crowd and survive a night of hoop horror as you fight your way back to 2026