Single-player games like Nephise: Ascension
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Nephise: Ascension, 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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Nephise
Single-player alternative to Nephise: Ascension — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nephise: Ascension.
Nephise is a short and atmospheric puzzle game with narration. It is a relaxing and mysterious experience especially with the help of its music.
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Nephise Begins
Single-player alternative to Nephise: Ascension — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nephise: Ascension.
Nephise Begins tells the player what happened at the time before Nephise was an orb collector. The main setting is forest again, but this time without snow, instead a more sunny and foggy weather.
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Drizzlepath: Deja Vu
Single-player alternative to Nephise: Ascension — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nephise: Ascension.
A man embarks on a journey toward the top of a mountain, to discover the truth of his existence. Along the way, he ponders the nature of life itself. Drizzlepath: Deja Vu is a spiritual revisitation of Tonguç Bodur's very first game, Drizzlepath.
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The Hunting God
Single-player alternative to Nephise: Ascension — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nephise: Ascension.
The Hunting God is a short walking simulator in which you play as Nodens the hunting god and listen to what he has been through accompanied by a white wolf named Draiochta.
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Drizzlepath: Glass
Single-player alternative to Nephise: Ascension — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nephise: Ascension.
Your husband is dead and you want to visit his grave. There is an abondoned house in a village, and in that house you will find a red rose. You don't want to go to your husband's grave empty handed.
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Drizzlepath: Genie
Single-player alternative to Nephise: Ascension — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nephise: Ascension.
Walk as Lula, on the path you choose, as she journeys to discover the meaning of the Genie and fulfill her destiny.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Nephise: Ascension — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Nephise: Ascension.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Nephise: Ascension — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nephise: Ascension.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.