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Single-player games like Asphodelium

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Asphodelium, 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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    Sorcerer's Choice: Angel or Demon? — Steam game cover

    Sorcerer's Choice: Angel or Demon?

    Single-player alternative to Asphodelium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Asphodelium.

    A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.

    2023SimulationCasual11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Argumentum ad culpam — Steam game cover

    Argumentum ad culpam

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

    Argumentum ad culpam is a gothic visual novel about the world of eternal agony. A capricious dance of principles and death. Take part in twisted battles of wits, where morality is only a tool for survival, and decide what future that world will have.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A Tithe in Blood — Steam game cover

    A Tithe in Blood

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

    A dark yuri visual novel about a quiet university student who discovers blood magic in the depths of her grief. Stepping into a world she little understands, Honoka finds unexpected love, and inadvertently sets in motion a deadly series of events.

    2025IndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Salome's Kiss — Steam game cover

    Salome's Kiss

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

    A dark lesbian / yuri gothic romance tale set in Victorian England, in which an anxious governess is aggressively pursued by her unruly, tempestuous pupil.

    2022IndieCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MAMIYA — Steam game cover

    MAMIYA

    Single-player alternative to Asphodelium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Asphodelium.

    MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.

    2021ActionAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    When The Night Comes — Steam game cover

    When The Night Comes

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

    When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.

    2021IndieCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Demonheart: The Ice Demon — Steam game cover

    Demonheart: The Ice Demon

    Single-player alternative to Asphodelium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Asphodelium.

    Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?

    2022AdventureSimulationRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cage of Roses — Steam game cover

    Cage of Roses

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

    A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    That Which Binds Us — Steam game cover

    That Which Binds Us

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

    All she wanted was to get a bail bond for her troublesome boyfriend. That's when she met Idris, a very special kind of bondsman. With a flick of a knife, he asked Evalise one confusing question- what if we could make him forget you?

    2018IndieSimulationRPG4.04 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Asterism — Steam game cover

    Asterism

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

    Kotachi can see monsters other people can't. During the day, he goes to high school- but at night, he fights off specters, monsters that lurk in shadows and can harm people.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Image of Perfection — Steam game cover

    Image of Perfection

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

    Fight ghosts from your past and actual ghosts.

    2019IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Memories on the Shoreline — Steam game cover

    Memories on the Shoreline

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

    Melody wanted a break from her stressful med classes— so when spring break came around, she dragged her best friend with her to the beach. However, things don't go quite so smoothly when they meet a local fisherman and... a mermaid?!

    2019IndieSimulationRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Drops of Death — Steam game cover

    Drops of Death

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

    A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?

    2025IndieSimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Canvas Menagerie — Steam game cover

    Canvas Menagerie

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

    A slice-of-life boys love romance about a group of TV actors going through their mid-20s together.

    2024IndieSimulationCasual11.24 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →