Single-player games like Homicipher
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Homicipher, 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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Homicipher: Demo
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
Homicipher is a female-targeted language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
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As Long As It's Not Illegal: Act I
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Homicipher.
It's Friday night, you and the other Senior Elites devise a plan to throw a party at the rival campus. Carpool across Suncity limits, down into the lawless land of the Undercity. It's Illegal for these two cities to mingle. But is it illegal if... you're never caught?
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Crown of the Nile: Cleopatra's Choice
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
Step into the role of Cleopatra in this historical otome game! Navigating a treacherous web of alliances and betrayals, you must outmaneuver Roman titans to rise from exile and reclaim your throne. Your choices shape history. Will you be a pawn in their games, or the Queen who rules them all?
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Still Joking
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
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Holy Shift
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
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ComicKingdom
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.
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Pre-Odyssey: Love at First Quack
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
She’s a princess beloved by ducks. He’s a notorious king of schemes. A romantic fragment from a 3000-year old EPIC, retold as an Otome visual novel… but with ducks somehow added to the mix.
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7 Days to End with You
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
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Chants of Sennaar
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
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Sethian
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Homicipher.
Sethian is a sci-fi puzzle game in which you master a fictitious language. The only surviving speaker is an ancient computer. Does it hold the answers behind the disappearance of the Sethianese people?
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Heaven's Vault
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Homicipher.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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Epitaph
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Homicipher.
Battle for the afterlife in Epitaph, a competitive, fast-paced tactical battler. Command your three Reapers, and fight your opponent by sequencing their abilities and setting up combos. But be careful - every time a Reaper dies, they come back stronger, making your opponent even more deadly.