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?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?!
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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?
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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.