Single-player games like The Mildew Children
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Mildew Children, 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 Mildew Children: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
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Rainswept
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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Tokyo Dark
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
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Paradise Killer
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
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Unavowed
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
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Enigma of Fear
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
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Yes, Your Grace
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.
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Sister Ray
Single-player alternative to The Mildew Children — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Mildew Children.
2D RPG about the brutal daily life of Ray - an artist struggling with addiction, who takes care of her little sister. Look after your condition - no one should know about the addiction. Improve your skills, sell paintings, do everything to ease the withdrawal. Survive and look for a way out.