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Single-player games like Relieve

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Relieve, 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 Sketchbook About Her Sun — Steam game cover

    A Sketchbook About Her Sun

    Single-player alternative to Relieve — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Through a narrative based on Red Ribbon’s new album “Planet X”, experience a broken-heart girl’s journey through thoughts, daydreams and music.

    2021IndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    爱人 Lover — Steam game cover

    爱人 Lover

    Single-player alternative to Relieve — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    发生在中国的三段绝对本土又完全不同的故事,由校园篇、古代篇、都市篇组成,均以女性第一视角展开。

    2021IndieRPGCasual6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Afterlove EP — Steam game cover

    Afterlove EP

    Single-player alternative to Relieve — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own way forward. Step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Why do you love me? — Steam game cover

    Why do you love me?

    Single-player alternative to Relieve — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    A short romantic novel about modern relationships. We took some situations from life and tried to answer the question "why do people love each other?".

    2024IndieCasual2.69 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday — Steam game cover

    Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday

    Single-player alternative to Relieve — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    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。

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure7.25 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    锈翅 逃离我的家乡 Without Wings — Steam game cover

    锈翅 逃离我的家乡 Without Wings

    Single-player alternative to Relieve — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    玩家将以第一视角,扮演一名高中辍学的女孩,她被迫进入注塑厂打工。后来,她通过一款网络游戏,认识了大城市里的男孩阿澈,她义无反顾地向着有阿澈的未来奔去,也是向着能够逃离大山的未来奔去。在这跨越千里的鸿沟之间,她经历了期待、欣喜、意外、无助……最终,你将做出怎样的选择?

    2025IndieRPGCasual4.54 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    记得我 — Steam game cover

    记得我

    Single-player alternative to Relieve — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Remember Me is a galgame with a male first-person perspective. Players will play a high school student Lin Yining, and three girls launched their own story. It's up to you to choose between the hidden past and the future to reveal.

    2021Casual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers — Steam game cover

    Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers

    Single-player alternative to Relieve — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!

    2022IndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →