Single-player games like Love in the distance
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Love in the distance, 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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大鹏 - The Roc
Single-player alternative to Love in the distance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Due to work, Wu Shengyou was forced to leave home for high school in a big city. The sensitive, introverted poet felt out of place with classmates.As they grew closer, he seemed her only friend, yet appeared to completely misunderstand her inner thoughts...
- 2
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Love in the distance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
- 3
Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Single-player alternative to Love in the distance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?
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YiYi
Single-player alternative to Love in the distance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
You are "GUI", you have come to a city of eternal night, to find your soul to dream of "Yi Yi".
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风起长安：驭骨人
Single-player alternative to Love in the distance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
This is a Chinese style otome game！
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恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相
Single-player alternative to Love in the distance — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
《恋爱绮谭~不存在的真相~》是一款文字冒险游戏。 初到江城的顾唯，意外成为了一起社会新闻的主人公。凶险的都市中，他需要在混乱的舆论和虚假的情报中找到唯一的真相，也需要在两名各有千秋的少女间完成自我的抉择。秋去冬来，覆盖城市的厚厚积雪下，究竟掩藏着什么样的秘密......
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Lost in Secular Love
Single-player alternative to Love in the distance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.
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Shanghai Summer
Single-player alternative to Love in the distance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?