Single-player games like Fading Hearts
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Fading 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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Always Remember Me
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fading Hearts.
Amy is desperate! Her boyfriend Aaron doesn't remember her anymore after a car accident! Will you be able to make him remember again? Or perhaps it's time to move on. Maybe Amy will fall in love with someone else? It's up to you to decide. Play this life simulation game with dating sim elements and shape Amy's destiny.
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Charming Hearts
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fading 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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Loren The Amazon Princess
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Fading Hearts.
Loren The Amazon Princess is a fantasy epic combining intricate turn-based battles with a heroic tale of overcoming evil - with a twist! In this tale, you play as a loyal servant of the hero rather than the hero herself.
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WHITE ALBUM: Memories like Falling Snow
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Fading Hearts.
The classic visual novel from AQUAPLUS that launched one of Japan's most beloved franchises, WHITE ALBUM is a story of love in many forms. Will a couple cling together, or drift apart on the cold wind? The album of their relationship will be as white as snow, and as poignant.
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Cabernet
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fading Hearts.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fading Hearts.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fading Hearts.
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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Winds of Change
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fading Hearts.
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
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Magical Diary: Horse Hall
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fading Hearts.
You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.
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STEINS;GATE
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Fading Hearts.
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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Persona 5 Royal
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
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Infinite Game Works Episode 0
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fading Hearts.
A Game about making Games! Actually care about the people you work with! Play the role of Justin a high school student as he embarks on his dream journey to become a game developer. Having just won a programming contest he enlists the aid of Cleo the artist and Aki the music composer.
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Infinite Game Works Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Fading Hearts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fading Hearts.
The second game about making games! Care for and build relationships with your teammates! Now with an in-depth game development system, more story (just like you asked for), and more...