Single-player games like Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos, 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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Analogue: A Hate Story
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
A dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Two pursuable characters. Five endings. Welcome to the future.
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Journal
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
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Hate Plus
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Let's spend the next three real-time days together uncovering the mystery of what went horribly wrong on a derelict generation ship, with the help of a spunky/more-than-slightly-traumatized AI sidekick! A sequel to Analogue: A Hate Story that tells a whole new hate story of its own.
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Road to Empress I
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
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planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
In time for the 10th anniversary since its original release in Japan, planetarian is an engaging and emotional visual novel from legendary game studio, Key. A sub-brand of VisualArts, Key are also famed for creating Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, Rewrite, and Angel Beats!
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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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Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
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WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.01
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
From the author of Spice and Wolf, Isuna Hasekura, comes WORLD END ECONOMiCA. This is the first episode out of three part sci-fi/economic thriller visual novel set on the moon.
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STEINS;GATE
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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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Juniper's Knot
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Juniper's Knot is a short (~30 mins) kinetic novel about the meeting of a demon and a boy. A kinetic novel is a game that uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story.
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Mahou Arms
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Mahou Arms is an anime-inspired character-action hack and slash that tells the story of a magical girl paramilitary group fighting back against an alien invasion.
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Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation
Single-player alternative to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation is a kinetic novel and a prequel to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos. It uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story and follows Winter Harrison during her first week at mediator school.