Single-player games like Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!, 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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The Second Reality Room: Unspoken Truths
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!.
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
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15LANDS: Where Stars Fall / 十五区:星落何处
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!.
In an absurd age where "solve puzzles or go dumb," everyone trains their brain to survive. Fixing the obsolete Campfire System should be just another dull night of overtime—until old friends' grayed-out avatars light up again. Amid wild puzzles, earnest, slightly silly "goofing off" memories return.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
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记得我
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — 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.
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Return to Ash
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!.
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
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We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!.
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
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Staffer Reborn
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!.
Staffer Reborn is a game of supernatural abilities and logical deduction set in 1960s America. It tells the story of a man trapped in a cycle of death and resurrection caused by his supernatural ability and the investigator who was recruited to help.
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Wednesdays
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
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Elysium
Single-player alternative to Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!.
Sebastian is a janitor in a nursing home, but in a world of drugs and mysteries, his reality unravels. Under Dr. Malverick's watch, his ordinary life twists into strange experiments, missing patients, and inner turmoil. What is real?