Single-player games like Nova Hearts
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Nova Hearts, 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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A Date with Death
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
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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Bewitching Sinners
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
Bewitching Sinners is a dark comedy dating sim where your choices will either leave you with your true love or ruin a whole world and potentially killing millions of people within it, no pressure! Explore a fantasy world full of witches, hot priests, and the occasional dance with death.
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Seduce Me 2: The Demon War
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Nova Hearts.
Seduce Me 2: The Demon War is the sequel to the popular free-to-play otome game, Seduce Me the Otome. It follows the story of Mika Anderson as she is suddenly thrown into the Abyssal Plains right before she is about to be married to one of the five Incubi Brothers featured in the first game.
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Charming Hearts
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Hearts.
"Charming Hearts" is a real-life interactive dating game. Players will meet, get to know, and fall in love with different types of beauty. Every choice will lead to a completely different chemical reaction with "her"; every entanglement, the sweet love is entangled and pulled.
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Arcadia Fallen
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Nova Hearts.
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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Mission: It's Complicated
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
Mission: It’s Complicated is a narrative-based, visual novel where you match super-awesome superheroes to go on missions during the night and dates during the day. The more compatible the pair of superheroes are, the more likely that they will fall in love and save the world.
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Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
After surviving a near death encounter on their first day of work, Hunter has noticed something shocking. They're slowly turning into a mermaid! The latest adventure game/life simulation hybrid from the creators of the Max's Big Bust series.
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Five Hearts Under One Roof
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Nova Hearts.
Yuman’s, the player, once solitary home and routine are now invaded by five beautiful women! Each has her unique charm – the 'childhood friend of 20 years,' the 'first love and former idol,' the 'demanding boss,' the 'bold younger girl,' and the 'shy recluse.' Who will you choose?
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Othercide
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Hearts.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
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Nova Hearts: The Spark
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nova Hearts.
Join Luce and her friends in this FREE first chapter: The Spark! A mysterious force transforms you and other residents of Vermillion into heroes and villains. TEXT, DATE and FIGHT in this turn-based combat dating adventure!
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Ex Sanguis
Single-player alternative to Nova Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nova Hearts.
Bleed the world back to life in a series of tactical, turn-based bloodbaths! Lead your STILLAE, elite warriors in the fight to save a dying world from the forces of STASIS. Slay foes, kick them back on the timeline, and trigger chain events where elegance and blood flow as one.