Single-player games like The Ethereal Dream
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Ethereal Dream, 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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Bungou Catharsis 文豪カタルシス
Single-player alternative to The Ethereal Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ethereal Dream.
Fall in love, and rewrite literary history. Romance legendary Japanese authors—including Osamu Dazai, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kenji Miyazawa, and Natsume Soseki—in a literary mystery visual novel. Your choices shape not only your romance, but also the fate of literary history itself.
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Demonheart: The Cursed Trial
Single-player alternative to The Ethereal Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ethereal Dream.
You are a girl with a demonic heart, trapped with a group of suspicious individuals. A demonspawn arrives, setting off a chain of mysterious murders. Can you trust any of your fellow captives and find love in the chaos? Or will you fight for your life alone?
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Folie Fatale
Single-player alternative to The Ethereal Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ethereal Dream.
All capture targets are mentally "Jirai"(landmine)!? Meet these eccentric boys, reveal the truth beneath in this Psycho-love-horror VN!
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X-note
Single-player alternative to The Ethereal Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ethereal Dream.
X-note is a blend between Visual Novel and Dating Sim. Follow the story of Essi as she pursues the truth of her mother's death.
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Always Remember Me
Single-player alternative to The Ethereal Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ethereal Dream.
Amy is desperate! Her boyfriend Aaron doesn't remember her anymore after a car accident! Will you be able to make him remember again? Or perhaps it's time to move on. Maybe Amy will fall in love with someone else? It's up to you to decide. Play this life simulation game with dating sim elements and shape Amy's destiny.
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我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live
Single-player alternative to The Ethereal Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ethereal Dream.
Trapped in a game of dreams, where the price of failing to escape is eternal slumber. Across shifting worlds, you meet 'him.' Is he merely a kindred spirit born of crisis, or a forgotten soul from your distant memories? A heart-pounding romance adventure across the dreamscape—begins now!
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7'scarlet
Single-player alternative to The Ethereal Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Ethereal Dream.
The remote town of Okunezato is shaped like a crescent moon and shrouded in dark myths and legends. Take on the role of a brave young woman journeying into the unknown to uncover dangerous truths and locate her missing brother with her childhood friend.
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Lost in Secular Love
Single-player alternative to The Ethereal Dream — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ethereal Dream.
A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.