Single-player games like ARTISAN
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to ARTISAN, 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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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Single-player alternative to ARTISAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ARTISAN.
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
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Trap Yuri Garden
Single-player alternative to ARTISAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with ARTISAN.
Traps in motion at long last! Trap series creators Aogiri Penta and Nishida Hajime bring us another exciting title, a cross-dressing yuri love story that will shatter its readers sense of values into a thousand pieces!
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Case 00: The Cannibal Boy
Single-player alternative to ARTISAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
Case 00: The Cannibal Boy is a half-hour visual novel partly based on a true story, written by a writer with a background in psychology. It is a psychological horror story with an urban legend theme.
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Scary Game
Single-player alternative to ARTISAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
You open your eyes in a dark, unfamiliar room; each door drags you into a new chamber filled with absurd surprises and dark comedy. Will you manage to escape, or will you continue to star in this black comedy?
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Single-player alternative to ARTISAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ARTISAN.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
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Fatal Twelve
Single-player alternative to ARTISAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
Shishimai Rinka was a high schooler who ran a small café named Lion House in place of her grandmother. She lived her life much like any other person her age, but one day, she was caught up in an explosion while returning home on the train alongside her friend, Hitsuji Naomi.
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Paradise
Single-player alternative to ARTISAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with ARTISAN.
Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.
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The Miskatonic
Single-player alternative to ARTISAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
Explore the most prestigious occult school in North America, The Miskatonic University, in a hilarious dark comedy set after the Lovecraft canon, in which the greatest threat to mankind is its own ambitions.