Single-player games like Year of the Ladybug: Season 1
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1, 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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PENANCE
Single-player alternative to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year of the Ladybug: Season 1.
PENANCE is a single-player experience where you play as Calen, a former ranger trapped in a place that feels familiar, yet wrong. Day and night levels bring different dangers, forcing you to fight with whatever you can find to survive and uncover the truth behind it.
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Hidden Shelter
Single-player alternative to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year of the Ladybug: Season 1.
Death lurks in every corner of this journey filled with tension and despair. The brave may not be the smartest here and those who know the time to retreat are more likely to make it out alive in the end ... Find your lost friend in a house that holds unimaginable secrets.
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Scary Stories: Grotesque
Single-player alternative to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Year of the Ladybug: Season 1.
Inspired by internet ghost stories and urban legends, this short horror visual novel takes you through familiar places—a late-night subway, an empty theater, a foggy mountain road, and a dark bedroom. Encounter inexplicable entities, ominous signs, and horrors that feel disturbingly real.
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Back
Single-player alternative to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year of the Ladybug: Season 1.
《Back》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy !!!! The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
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Back:Fade
Single-player alternative to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year of the Ladybug: Season 1.
《Back:Fade》 is a full-motion audio live horror game. Special Note 1: This game is very supernatural and scary, timid or heart disease players do not buy !!!! The game will reveal different ending plots step by step through various searches and choices for your character.
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Year of the Ladybug: Season 1.
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
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筒楼异事
Single-player alternative to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year of the Ladybug: Season 1.
一个再平常不过的早晨,阿伟在幻境中接到莫名其妙的任务。利用奇怪的手电和钥匙,深入内部,发现隐藏在筒楼中的黑暗,找回自己失去的一切。
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Silent Nights
Single-player alternative to Year of the Ladybug: Season 1 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year of the Ladybug: Season 1.
Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.