Single-player games like Placebo Love
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Placebo Love, 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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Camp Palut
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Camp Palut is an otome-style mystery that can be completed in 2-4 hours. Play as Jess, a high school senior attending summer camp for the first time. Luckily there are cuties ready to get to know you! Choose between the four unique love interests or play them all to piece together the whole story.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
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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DEVIL'S LIMINAL
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
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To Find A Home
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? Sharing a haunted house with a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost and a fellow witch with a same problem.
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The Outer Frame
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
Dual role as detective and fixer, commanding the perfect cover-up from your desk. Intercept calls, stay ahead of the media, gather intel, and decide the fate of everyone involved before the masses catch on. Try again and again to reshape the narrative in this choice-driven mystery. Or you are fired.
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Fearbonding
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?
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A Date with Death
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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Perso
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Perso is an atmospheric puzzle game. Collecting relics within each level will slowly reveal what and where you are. You will be in control of at least five cubes, each with different abilities. Use them all to find your way.
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Persona 5 Royal
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
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Last Word
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
In a society where having the last word means having power over others, a small party is disrupted by a gentleman who politely issues orders via one-way intercom.
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Elemental Connection
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Minimalist abstract puzzle board game about making elemental connections. Match tiles to create a satisfying mosaic.
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Social Caterpillar
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
The only hands-on puzzle adventure guaranteed to accurately and humanely teach Socialization to Introverts, heh heh!