Single-player games like Cooking Companions
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Cooking Companions, 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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Dread Weight
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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Tokyo Dark
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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CORPSE FACTORY
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
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7'scarlet
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cooking Companions.
The remote town of Okunezato is shaped like a crescent moon and shrouded in dark myths and legends. Take on the role of a brave young woman journeying into the unknown to uncover dangerous truths and locate her missing brother with her childhood friend.
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Cabernet
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Corpse Party (2021)
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
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Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition
Single-player alternative to Cooking Companions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?