Single-player games like Monster Loves You!
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Monster Loves You!, 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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Mushroom Musume
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monster Loves You!.
Raise a mushroom from a spore into a fine young woman, then discover the twists and turns her life may take in this creepy-cute fairytale life simulation game.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monster Loves You!.
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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Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monster Loves You!.
Can you find love at the nerdiest convention ever? "Monster Con" goes back to the multiplayer dating sim formula: go through absurd and funny situations as you find love among six sexy monsters! Who will you romance? The mimic who cosplays? The idol clown? Or the eldritch cutie? (There's also Liam)
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Cabernet
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monster Loves You!.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
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Always Sometimes Monsters
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Monster Loves You!.
Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.
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The Yawhg
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Monster Loves You!.
The Yawhg is a one-to-four player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town’s locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives?
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Burly Men at Sea
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monster Loves You!.
A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monster Loves You!.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Monster Loves You!.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monster Loves You!.
ROCKETS fire ROCKETS at ROCKETS in this action-arcade, arena-combat, gorgeous festival-of-fireworks! It's dogfighting meets figure-skating in space with local multiplayer and single-player fast-paced action modes plus a ZEN MODE where ROCKETS learn to LOVE.
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Fantastic Contraption
Single-player alternative to Monster Loves You! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monster Loves You!.
A surreal building game for VR. Create life-sized contraptions as tall as you can reach, then send them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. There are no right or wrong solutions, so bring your creativity.