Single-player games like Someday You'll Return
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Someday You'll Return, 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 Curiosity
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
The protagonist Ken and his friend Jun have come to a certain mountain to visit a rumored ruin. What awaits them there is...
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The Vineyard Massacre
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
The Vineyard Massacre is a psychological survival horror game set in a cursed wine estate. Escape the twisted halls of the Sangnoire Mansion, solve vintage mechanical puzzles, and survive the hunt of a deranged vineyard master whose madness taints reality itself.
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Maid of Sker
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
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Claustrophobia
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
Claustrophobia offers a scary and dark horror experience filled with blood boiling moments, first you will have to silently move your way through the darkness, until you can pick up arms and discover the truth. Can you figure out what is hiding in this grueling subterranean facility?
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Education
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
Having done some terrible things in his youth at school, his memories call Bart Blake back to that place, in his nightmares.
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Into the Dead: Crimson Heights
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
Into the Dead: Crimson Heights is a VR survival horror game set in a confined apartment building at the beginning of a devastating zombie outbreak. Sneak, explore and fight back against the undead in a desperate attempt to survive.
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CATACOMBIA
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Someday You'll Return.
90s VHS Found Footage Survival Horror in Paris Catacombs. Relive Paris' dark memories and relive the lost explorers experience through the recording itself. See if you can alter the outcome.
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The Artifact Protocol
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
A psychological horror game where every artifact traps you in the final moments of someone’s life. Face five distinct nightmares, each with its own monster, story, and theme. You’re not solving the mystery… you’re reliving it.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Outlast 2
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is an innovative narrative driven adventure game. The story centers on Rachel Manners, a 35 year old astrobiologist. She is a member of an elite group of scientists, chosen to embark on one of the most critical missions ever conceived on Earth. Now Rachel is alone, orbiting an unknown planet.
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Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Someday You'll Return.
How far would you go if your daughter didn’t come home? Someday You’ll Return: Director’s Cut is a first-person psychological horror. This story-driven game offers enhanced features, an improved story, and additional content. Enter the woods if you dare and begin a search you’ll never forget.
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Vampires: Guide Them to Safety!
Single-player alternative to Someday You'll Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Someday You'll Return.
Guide bobble-headed ignoramuses through a labyrinth before dawn. Puzzle game filled with bobble-headed non-glittering lemming-like vampires, traps, crazy music and a real challenge for serious players.