Single-player games like Touhou: Fading Illusion
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Touhou: Fading Illusion, 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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Curiosity
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but after satisfying it she was resurrected." This game is a visual novel. Features of the game - puzzles and several endings, depending on your choice.
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Ceiba
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
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Athanasy
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
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Suhoshin
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
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Agarta
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
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Noctuary
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Two young illuminators, Fancia and Alina, start their adventure in the bright and fascinating Inlixaland... ...in pursuit of becoming trustworthy "The Arborangers."
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Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
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.
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RAIN Project - a touhou fangame
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
RAIN Project is a Touhou fangame re-imagined as a platforming boss-bash! After a ritual gone wrong, the newbie shrine maiden Sanae awakes in a world of fantasy. With only the storms to guide her, Sanae sets off to scale a towering mountain in search of answers.
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Project T
Single-player alternative to Touhou: Fading Illusion — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It’s with a heavy heart that we announce that Project T has been canceled. We want to thank you for your support throughout this journey.