Single-player games like The Flood
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Flood, 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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A Mortician's Tale
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Flood.
A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.
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The Beginner's Guide
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flood.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
- 3
Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flood.
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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Nephise Begins
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flood.
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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Old Man's Journey
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flood.
Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.
- 6
The Gardens Between
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flood.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
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Drizzlepath: Deja Vu
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flood.
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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Rainy Season
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Flood.
This is a story about an ordinary family spending time at home during the rain.
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City Climber
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flood.
City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world. Find your way through diverse hand-crafted environments and enjoy funny challenges full of falling and destruction.
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SECTOR ZERO
Single-player alternative to The Flood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flood.
SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by mining operations deep within Asteroid 2031 XT.