Single-player games like 杀青:序章
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to 杀青:序章, 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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我的一个多重人格朋友
Single-player alternative to 杀青:序章 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 杀青:序章.
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
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不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book
Single-player alternative to 杀青:序章 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 杀青:序章.
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
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流言侦探
Single-player alternative to 杀青:序章 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 杀青:序章.
《流言侦探》是一款诡异,烧脑,悬疑推理剧情游戏,在游戏的体验中,玩家自主找出线索,并利用线索,和角色对话后推进故事。严格的推理玩法,玩家将扮演一个神秘的联络者,玩家的选择将影响了解故事的不同侧面。通过和诸多角色的聊天推理出事件一层层真相,找出隐藏的凶手。
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迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
Single-player alternative to 杀青:序章 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 杀青:序章.
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.
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Paper Bride 2 Zangling Village
Single-player alternative to 杀青:序章 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 杀青:序章.
This is the sequel to our Paper Bride series based on Chinese folklore. This story takes place in Zangling Village, where players must explore a village shrouded in occult mystery to uncover the secret origins of this haunted village.
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Cellveillance
Single-player alternative to 杀青:序章 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with 杀青:序章.
"Cellveillance" is a detective drama entertainment product, you will visit the apartment every day, and the entire apartment is responsible for everything that happens in the apartment, a mysterious organization asks you to return the information of the residents.
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Paper Bride
Single-player alternative to 杀青:序章 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 杀青:序章.
Paper Bride is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game. You will play as the groom to search for the truth and have bizarre encounters, gradually learning about the dark mystic custom in the bride's home village and a story from the past...
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Tales of the Mirror
Single-player alternative to 杀青:序章 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 杀青:序章.
Tales of the Mirror is a landscape-mode visual novel game created by Cotton Games. As a player, you solve a series of mysteries in the mid and late Ming Dynasty, in the south of Yangtze River.