Single-player games like The Alchemist
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Alchemist, 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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Arcadia Fallen
Single-player alternative to The Alchemist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Alchemist.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
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Royal Alchemist
Single-player alternative to The Alchemist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with The Alchemist.
Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! An Otome / BxB survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.
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The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Single-player alternative to The Alchemist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Alchemist.
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to The Alchemist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Alchemist.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to The Alchemist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Alchemist.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to The Alchemist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Alchemist.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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Charming Hearts
Single-player alternative to The Alchemist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Alchemist.
"Charming Hearts" is a real-life interactive dating game. Players will meet, get to know, and fall in love with different types of beauty. Every choice will lead to a completely different chemical reaction with "her"; every entanglement, the sweet love is entangled and pulled.
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Love Is All Around
Single-player alternative to The Alchemist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Alchemist.
The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.