Single-player games like Hearth & Holmes
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Hearth & Holmes, 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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Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
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Northanger Abbey
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hearth & Holmes.
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
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The Good Husband
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
You are a good husband. You cook, you clean, and you take your medication. But as your home slowly turns into a nightmare, you must answer one question: Is your wife hiding a demonic secret, or are you just losing your mind? Survive 7 days in this tense psychological domestic horror.
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How to grow a man : Turning Chumps to Hunks
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
Raise Chris over four years, shape his future, and pursue romance with seven unique men in this BL life and dating simulation. Your choices determine his career, relationships, and ending.
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Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hearth & Holmes.
Become a legendary detective of ancient China! In "Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator", play as Di Renjie, solving thrilling cases across Bianzhou and Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty and uncovering the truth.
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7 Years at Sea
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hearth & Holmes.
It’s the golden years of piracy! You, a cursed captain must sail the seas to prove your worthiness to the supernatural being who has claimed your soul. Make your way across the Islands, plunder other ships and complete quests, all while managing your supplies and crew.
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Within the Inner Palace
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.
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Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hearth & Holmes.
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
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Open Sorcery
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hearth & Holmes.
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
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Open Sorcery: Sea++
Single-player alternative to Hearth & Holmes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hearth & Holmes.
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by your broken memories. Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.