Single-player games like Rituals in the Dark
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Rituals in the Dark, 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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Cage of Roses
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rituals in the Dark.
A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
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The Fairy's Song
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
A yuri / lesbian visual novel set in the UK. Marnie, a bored goth girl, accidentally stumbles upon a sleeping female knight in the forest. Together, the pair must work to break a centuries-old curse, while romantic feelings between them begin to grow.
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Salome's Kiss
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
A dark lesbian / yuri gothic romance tale set in Victorian England, in which an anxious governess is aggressively pursued by her unruly, tempestuous pupil.
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Asphyxia
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rituals in the Dark.
A gloomy lesbian / yuri visual novel featuring characters based on famous Romantic poets such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. Can you help Samantha Coleridge repair her fractured relationship with Lillian Wordsworth?
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Her Love, Like Poison
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
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Analogue: A Hate Story
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
A dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Two pursuable characters. Five endings. Welcome to the future.
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Night Cascades
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
The city is on fire, and the Devil is to blame - or is it? Two women must solve an occult-themed mystery set in an alternate 1980s while unraveling the secrets of their past. Hunt for clues and interrogate suspects in this interactive yuri visual novel.
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Blackberry Honey
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.
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Sweetest Monster
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
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Strawberry Vinegar
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
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The Way We All Go (2015)
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rituals in the Dark.
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?
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The Language of Love
Single-player alternative to Rituals in the Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rituals in the Dark.
Mitsuki, an aimless young man studying to take his university entrance exams, falls for a young single mother who lives in his apartment complex. A relationship develops between these mismatched social outcasts, and then...