Single-player games like How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness, 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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The Mind of Marlo
Single-player alternative to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness.
Uniquely presented as an hour long documentary film, The Mind of Marlo is a narrative driven adventure game focusing on love, loss and silly heads. Laugh and cry with Marlo as he gets to the bottom of his life changing condition, known as Spontaneous Silly Head Syndrome.
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Twelve Minutes
Single-player alternative to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
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Cats and the Other Lives
Single-player alternative to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness.
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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Vessels
Single-player alternative to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness.
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
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Goodnight Universe
Single-player alternative to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness.
From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Single-player alternative to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
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Leila
Single-player alternative to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness.
Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face. Solve story-driven puzzles, relive fragile memories, and discover a deeply personal journey that may feel more familiar than you expect.
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Football Game
Single-player alternative to How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness.
You are Tommy, a local high school football hero in the town of East Bend. It’s game night for the Purchase County Turbines and your sweetheart is waiting in the bleachers. Join Tommy for a night you won’t forget...