Single-player games like Jolly Roger
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Jolly Roger, 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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The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
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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Arcade Spirits
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?
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Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
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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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
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Arcadia Fallen
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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STEINS;GATE
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
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Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
A comic book adventure of freelance supervillainy, petting cats, and/or destroying capitalism in which your choices determine success in a series of daring heists and capers.
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My Burning Heart
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
My Burning Heart is an erotic Yaoi BL Visual Novel set in a 1001 Nights world.
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Chasing the Stars
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
Chasing the Stars is a steampunk-ish multichoice BL Visual Novel. Tirs is a workaholic, determined young man with a dream: going to space. Will he achieve his goal while dealing with college life, the academic research community and its begrudged, and his awful love life?
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Night and Day
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
Night and Day is a BL dating sim Visual Novel about art, coming of age and jazz music.
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Lurkers
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
Chasing Jack the Ripper! A BL/ Yaoi Visual Novel
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Exes Assault!!
Single-player alternative to Jolly Roger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jolly Roger.
A BL Bara Romantic Comedy Visual Novel