Single-player games like Placebo Love
Below are 13 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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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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Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Love Curse is a GL visual novel. You’ve fallen under a curse, and the only way to break it is to find your soulmate! The clock is ticking… Will you find true love? And what secrets will you uncover along the way?
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Voice Love on Air
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Placebo Love.
A BL dating sim with elements of studio management and interactions with voice actors! Follow Aki, a newbie voice director who has to complete the recordings for several BL dramas, and interact with the charming voice actors. Come give voice to the language of love!
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Speed Dating for Ghosts
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.
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Analogue: A Hate Story
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
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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Mindcop
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.
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Winds of Change
Single-player alternative to Placebo Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
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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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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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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!