Single-player games like The Mermaid of Zennor
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The Mermaid of Zennor, 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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Mixed Feelings: While You Were Away - Boys Love (BL) Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
Gale and Arthur are in a long-distance relationship, but Gale found himself feeling lonely without his partner. When he applies to work at a cafe, he meets his charismatic co-worker, Brycen. Brycen is so different from Arthur, yet he finds himself falling for him. Will he choose his new or old love?
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Victorian Debutante
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
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Shadows on the Vatican: Nightingale
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Writing on a blog and using her obscure ability, the mysterious Nightingale has been helping people in danger for years. Now, she’s forced to disappear, facing threats from a killer... one of those people she helped in the past. An interactive short story featuring an advanced navigation UI.
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The Leak
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
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Last Days
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
The gods have blessed New Canaan for four hundred years, and everyone - including Sister Ginsetsu - thought it would go on forever, until the day Ginsetsu met the gods of New Canaan. Since then, the story between the maiden who calls herself a god, and the maiden who will become a god has begun.
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Bad Faith
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
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Her Love, Like Poison
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
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锈翅 逃离我的家乡 Without Wings
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
玩家将以第一视角，扮演一名高中辍学的女孩，她被迫进入注塑厂打工。后来，她通过一款网络游戏，认识了大城市里的男孩阿澈，她义无反顾地向着有阿澈的未来奔去，也是向着能够逃离大山的未来奔去。在这跨越千里的鸿沟之间，她经历了期待、欣喜、意外、无助……最终，你将做出怎样的选择？
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Rituals in the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Mermaid of Zennor.
A lesbian / yuri romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough. Our heroine, Aspen, meets the mysterious, beautiful Althea in the dead of night, but who is Althea really...?
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No longer human
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Mermaid of Zennor.
Vicious high-energy freak action in the derelict warrens of a cybergothic shitworld
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FULL METAL SCHOOLGIRL
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Full metal schoolgirl destroys an exploitative enterprise! (...while being livestreamed)
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Blackberry Honey
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Mermaid of Zennor.
A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.
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Sweetest Monster
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
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Cage of Roses
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Mermaid of Zennor.
A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
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Strawberry Vinegar
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
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The Fairy's Song
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mermaid of Zennor.
A yuri / lesbian visual novel set in the UK. Marnie, a bored goth girl, accidentally stumbles upon a sleeping female knight in the forest. Together, the pair must work to break a centuries-old curse, while romantic feelings between them begin to grow.
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The Way We All Go (2015)
Single-player alternative to The Mermaid of Zennor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Mermaid of Zennor.
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?