Single-player games like Island Notes
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Island Notes, 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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SIFU Kidnapped! Adventure in the Women's Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Modern worker reborn as Golden Cicada in the all-female Land of Women. Unravel the Mother-Son River’s secrets, battle Demon King Mara, and bond with seven goddesses. Your choices shape many endings—balance enlightenment and love to rewrite the Three Realms.
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哎呦!这么多美女呀!
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Island Notes.
The player transforms into the male lead "Lu Ming" and meets six beautiful women with vastly different styles. They may be pure schoolgirls, high cold models, hot OL, anime cute girls, pure love daughters, tender female teachers..
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Catch The Fox
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
Catch the Fox is a casual singleplayer action game featuring foxes that run between altars, requiring strategy and dexterity to outwit them as they get faster. Fly with the hang glider and get powerups. Or play zombie mode, where the zombie foxes chase you, as you try to survive as long as possible.
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Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a wholesome, creature capture, 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with over 30 hours of gameplay!
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Buried Under Rocks
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
Would you choose the lie over the truth? Buried Under Rocks is an action and puzzling game with two different endings.
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Our world has not decayed
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Although it is already the end of the world, we still stay together. all characters are over the age of 18.
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Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
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Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
在本作中，“你”化身为即将迎来毕业季的男主顾易，在对未来的迷茫与憧憬中，你将与六位性格迥异、各具魅力的女生发生一连串的故事，她们或是鬼马少女、或是温柔甜心、猫系娇女、豆腐西施，千娇百媚、亦幻亦真，敬过往。
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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Stranded Deep
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Island Notes.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Conan Exiles
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Island Notes.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
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Raft
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!