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Single-player games like Frequency Dissonance

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Frequency Dissonance, 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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    PERIOD SURVIVAL:Final Trial — Steam game cover

    PERIOD SURVIVAL:Final Trial

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frequency Dissonance.

    Heili, The musician who survived the life-or-death variety show "VIAGRA" and won a massive prize, has once again joined a show where his life on the line! Want to survive? Then, DANCE! PERIOD SURVIVAL:Final Trial is a mystery adventure game you find "Varient" participants through dance battle.

    2025AdventureEarly Access1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer — Steam game cover

    Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frequency Dissonance.

    A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.

    IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pentiment — Steam game cover

    Pentiment

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Frequency Dissonance.

    Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

    2022AdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Soulflow — Steam game cover

    Soulflow

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Frequency Dissonance.

    Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain — Steam game cover

    The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frequency Dissonance.

    The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!

    2021AdventureSimulationRPG2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Test: Secrets of the Soul — Steam game cover

    The Test: Secrets of the Soul

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frequency Dissonance.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

    2023IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Let Bions Be Bygones — Steam game cover

    Let Bions Be Bygones

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frequency Dissonance.

    Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dark Nights with Poe and Munro — Steam game cover

    Dark Nights with Poe and Munro

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frequency Dissonance.

    Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.

    2020IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Presenter Slides™ — Steam game cover

    Presenter Slides™

    Single-player alternative to Frequency Dissonance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Frequency Dissonance.

    An unconventional adventure into the corporate world of presentation software. Improve office productivity by 200% and impress your boss while doing it.

    2022IndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →