Single-player games like Some Distant Memory
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Some Distant Memory, 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 Great Perhaps
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.
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Journal
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
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Voyage
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
To find their way home, two survivors journey to unravel the mysteries of the past.
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The Station
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
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.
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The Suicide of Rachel Foster
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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The Thaumaturge
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.
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Deep Down
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
Embark on an epic mining adventure in "Deep Down," an Action RPG with procedurally generated caves, real-time mining, crafting, and combat. Upgrade your tools, manage resources, and uncover hidden secrets as you delve deeper into the earth.
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Wizard with a Gun
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Some Distant Memory.
Wizard with a Gun is an online sandbox survival game for 1 - 4 players set in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Embark on a journey alone or with a friend to collect, craft, and outfit your wizard however you see fit as you explore the unknown.
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Gurgamoth
Single-player alternative to Some Distant Memory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Some Distant Memory.
Gurgamoth is a flying fighting game where the level is your weapon. Each match is lightning quick and focuses on intense flying combat and getting in your opponent's head. The controls are simple, but the mechanics and interesting levels bring out the game’s depth.