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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A Date with Death
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Homicipher.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
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Cellveillance
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Homicipher.
"Cellveillance" is a detective drama entertainment product, you will visit the apartment every day, and the entire apartment is responsible for everything that happens in the apartment, a mysterious organization asks you to return the information of the residents.
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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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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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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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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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The Price Of Flesh
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.
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Red Embrace: Hollywood
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Homicipher.
1996—Los Angeles, CA. A young newcomer is turned into a vampire and thrust into the dark underworld of society, forced to sink or swim. You are that newcomer.
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Her Story
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Homicipher.
Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Avoid the fanatical cultists and survive dangerous rituals to escape the Black Woods with your life in this 90’s anime inspired visual novel!
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The Expression Amrilato
Single-player alternative to Homicipher — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homicipher.
Plunge into a new world with a completely foreign language in this romantic, yuri isekai visual novel about the struggles of communication and forging connection. Experience life in a foreign land. Enjoy a sweet, heartwarming romance. Learn Esperanto.