Single-player games like The Soul Box
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Soul Box, 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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Ninety-Six
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
Leaving something behind is a hard task, Niles knows it all too well. When a stranger disturbs his peaceful everyday life and routine, he has no choice but to face the past and make some life-changing decisions.
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Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
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Snowdome
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
For Tan Yan, there is little hope his life will change. It's like his whole life is trapped inside a snowdome, unable to escape. But, what if, one day, he's given the chance to make a change?
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VIRTUAL GIRL @ WORLD’S END
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Soul Box.
The story is set in future Tokyo, where human’s endless desires have consumed finite resources. In this world that is gradually approaching its end, the streamer girls continue to sing, while embracing dreams and despair in their hearts...
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Nobody Wants to Die
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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BURIED STARS
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Soul Box.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
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Naked News
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
Join in the fun with an unforgettable experience unlike any other! Naked News brings some hardcore, crass, dirty, vulgar, dark humour into an easily offended world, not pulling any punches and making fun of everything with this visual novel-style comic, Sitcom-esque episodic!
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The Knight of the Crimson Tower
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
Laura is a daughter of the lord of the Crimson Tower. To impress her friends she steals a certain thing from an old witch, so the witch curses her: now, when the full moon rises, Laura turns into a beast and is put in a cage of her tower. But would it be enough to hold her?
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Raid
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
Raid is a detective visual novel with choices and consequences, unfolding in a cold, slow-paced, lost-in-time way of the scandinavian tv-shows.
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Lifesigns
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
The past was haunting — and so, you fled. To the deep web of streets, blinding lights, skyscrapers, creature comforts, a whole new life, a whole new you. Welcome to the City. Welcome to the Corporation. Welcome to the Game.
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For Ever Melancholia
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
An archaeology student is sent to do his summer training in a place far away from civilization. There he meets three beautiful girls who share his passion for cinema and art. What can possibly go wrong?
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Phantoms
Single-player alternative to The Soul Box — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
A kinetic visual novel about an ex-archeologist, ex-professor, always-a-poet and now burglar taking his second ever case to crack open a Soul Box after a reporter from the news blows his brains out during a live broadcast.