Single-player games like The Witch in the Forest
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Witch in the Forest, 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
- 1
Please Be Happy
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
A comfy yuri VN about the foxgirl Miho and her quest to find the person who's most important to her. This emotional visual novel features two different heroines to choose from, and a story that will make you both laugh and cry!
- 2
Hustle Cat
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
You are Avery Grey, the newest employee at a popular cat cafe called A Cat's Paw. The coffee's good and the staff is friendly (and kinda cute!) but mysterious. One day, you find a strange book in the basement, with letters you can't quite read...
- 3
南栀 Unwavering love
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Witch in the Forest.
《南栀》是一款百合向视觉小说游戏，讲述了在前作（夜永 Eternal Love）剧情发生一年半之后，聆花女子学院中的少女们成长的故事。
- 4
Salvation:Immortale
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
The fog city detective with exceptional intelligence and keen insight, Mei Qu, one day encounters a snow country girl with snow-colored long hair and witch-like beauty, Snell, at a crime scene. From this moment, their fates begin to intertwine, and an adventurous story unfolds.
- 5
Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
In this yuri visual novel featuring an all-star cast, you follow one main love triangle as they navigate their budding romance and the pursuit of their goals, unlocking new, heartwarming events to view from the perspectives of each cute girl in six other precious couples as well.
- 6
Asphyxia
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Witch in the Forest.
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?
- 7
镜花饴情 Mirage Sugar Acacia
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
饴情甜蜜转瞬即逝，女生之间的爱情就像镜花般脆弱。 踏入大学校园的自由舞台，交织着理想与现实迷茫前行，她们的缘分是否可以开花结果呢？ 甘之如饴的一对一百合故事，多结局。
- 8
Lingua Fleur: Lily
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Witch in the Forest.
'Lingua Fleur: Lily' is focused on friendship, love, troubles, efforts, and confusions between girls. Made with illustrations, animations, and original music, this story tells of the protagonist Yuyi Wu's secret, one very different from an 'ordinary' girl. Told in a gentle and ordinary style.
- 9
That Which Binds Us
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
All she wanted was to get a bail bond for her troublesome boyfriend. That's when she met Idris, a very special kind of bondsman. With a flick of a knife, he asked Evalise one confusing question- what if we could make him forget you?
- 10
Asterism
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
Kotachi can see monsters other people can't. During the day, he goes to high school- but at night, he fights off specters, monsters that lurk in shadows and can harm people.
- 11
Image of Perfection
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Witch in the Forest.
Fight ghosts from your past and actual ghosts.
- 12
Memories on the Shoreline
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
Melody wanted a break from her stressful med classes— so when spring break came around, she dragged her best friend with her to the beach. However, things don't go quite so smoothly when they meet a local fisherman and... a mermaid?!
- 13
Drops of Death
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?
- 14
Canvas Menagerie
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
A slice-of-life boys love romance about a group of TV actors going through their mid-20s together.
- 15
Asphodelium
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
You killed him once before. Don't make the same mistake twice. A melancholic boys love visual novel about killing cults and your past confronting you.
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Lost Lune ~ the cosmic god's eternal night
Single-player alternative to The Witch in the Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Witch in the Forest.
A post-apocalyptic horror fantasy visual novel about a never-ending winter night and humanity persisting.