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Single-player games like Making Lovers After Stories

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Making Lovers After Stories, 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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    Renai X Royale - Love's a Battle — Steam game cover

    Renai X Royale - Love's a Battle

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    I, transfer student Hanamaru Mari, love you, Komachi Hiro-kun! Please go out with me! Our protag, Komachi Hirotaka. Every day, he goes through the motions-- dodging his cunning underclassman's advances, accidentally hitting on the student council president, and chasing idols.

    2022Adventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sugar * Style — Steam game cover

    Sugar * Style

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Sugar * Style is a Japanese-style visual novel produced by Smee, a Japanese developer of romance VNs. Be the perfect husband for your future wife and conquer her heart with your husband-powers!

    2021Casual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kinkoi: Golden Time — Steam game cover

    Kinkoi: Golden Time

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    Welcome to Noble Private Academy, an institution that cultivates the wealthiest, most well-connected students in all of Japan! At this boarding school, one must be willing to accept all of its refined and dignified teachings or be met with strict opposition!

    2022AdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies — Steam game cover

    Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    Takamine Kousei was living a carefree college life until, one day, he tragically died in an accident. But then, the bizarre happened: Takamine Kousei opened his eyes again. And what's more, when he woke up, it was the morning of the very day, he had died.

    2022AdventureCasual34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche — Steam game cover

    Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche is a Japanese-style visual novel produced by Saga Planets, a Japanese developer of romance VNs. The game won numerous awards in the year of its release in Japan for its art, music, characters, and story.

    2021SimulationCasual34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Yukikoi Melt — Steam game cover

    Yukikoi Melt

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    "Yukikoi Melt" is a visual novel about a young man's life in the Winter Country. Miharu, a winter hater, and the girls of the Winter Club find their lives intertwined when he moves to snowy Yubane. Can their warmth melt his heart?

    2020AdventureCasual14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    IxSHE Tell — Steam game cover

    IxSHE Tell

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    At long last - we, the student council, have won you your freedom to love! The moment I declare these words, my classmates come surging forward, surrounding me in a circle of cheers that echo across the entire campus.

    2020SimulationCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Love, Elections, and Chocolate — Steam game cover

    Love, Elections, and Chocolate

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    Love, Elections, and Chocolate is a romantic visual novel developed by the Japanese game studio Sprite. Upon its release in Japan, it garnered numerous awards for its exceptional art, captivating music, and well-crafted characters.

    2025AdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Making*Lovers — Steam game cover

    Making*Lovers

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Making*Lovers A story about the way love can bloom after dating begins. The focus in Making*Lovers is on the things that come after a relationship's beginning. With "start dating, then fall in love" as the concept, you will work towards the moment when love truly blooms.

    2020SimulationCasual29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ — Steam game cover

    Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    Springtime. The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people. For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and also the year he resolved himself to finally fulfill his long-cherished dream: finding a girlfriend.

    2018AdventureSimulationCasual29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    HaremKingdom — Steam game cover

    HaremKingdom

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    HaremKingdom is a pure-love comedy in another world! Amidst magical hijinks and five adoring brides, what kind of harem will you choose to build?

    2021AdventureSimulationCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    突然*恋人 — Steam game cover

    突然*恋人

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    《突然*恋人》 全高清合集版收录了本系列本篇与两部后日谈内容。本系列是由日本知名美少女游戏品牌SMEE为纪念品牌成立十周年所制作的恋爱AVG作品。本作拥有特色的恋爱模拟系统,整体基调也保持了SMEE旗下作品一贯的高甜度。

    2024AdventureCasual16.79 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    LOVEPICAL-POPPY! — Steam game cover

    LOVEPICAL-POPPY!

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Making Lovers After Stories.

    From renowned Japanese visual novel brand SMEE, LOVEPICAL-POPPY!, the ultimate moege, arrives on Steam! Made for SMEE’s 15th anniversary and celebrating 150k+ sales, it keeps the brand’s signature sweetness while adding life-sim gameplay and a unique story progression system.

    2025AdventureCasual29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Making*Lovers: First Blush — Steam game cover

    Making*Lovers: First Blush

    Single-player alternative to Making Lovers After Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Does destiny really leave you with only one option?

    2026IndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →