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Single-player games like 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa, 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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    我的一个多重人格朋友 — Steam game cover

    我的一个多重人格朋友

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    《道格拉斯警督的日记》 — Steam game cover

    《道格拉斯警督的日记》

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book — Steam game cover

    不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    你与月光同罪-As Guilty As the Moon — Steam game cover

    你与月光同罪-As Guilty As the Moon

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    平行线交点杀人事件 — Steam game cover

    平行线交点杀人事件

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    Do you believe that parallel worlds really exist? An ordinary college student, Chen Chou, wakes up one day to find himself transported aboard a space research vessel. The strangers on the ship all claim to know him. Could it be that he has crossed over into a parallel world...

    IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Haunted Heye Apartment — Steam game cover

    Haunted Heye Apartment

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    Strange things frequently happen in the apartment, such as the black shadow by the bed, the face behind the curtains, and the eccentric neighbor... This old apartment seems to be hiding some unknown secrets... Will you walk ignorantly into death or discover the truth and escape to safety?

    2023IndieAdventureRPG3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty — Steam game cover

    The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring — Steam game cover

    Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?

    2021IndieAdventureRPG13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments — Steam game cover

    Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.

    2014Adventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zero Escape: The Nonary Games — Steam game cover

    Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?

    2017Adventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AI: The Somnium Files — Steam game cover

    AI: The Somnium Files

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.

    2019Adventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Escape Floor Zero — Steam game cover

    Escape Floor Zero

    Single-player alternative to 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa.

    Trapped in an infinite parking lot, your only escape is through Floor Zero. Detect subtle anomalies and make crucial decisions in this mind-bending, psychological horror experience. Dare to escape the unescapable? If you see an anomaly... turn back.

    2024AdventureSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →