Single-player games like The Butterfly Collector
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Butterfly Collector, 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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双相:水管(Bipolar: The Tube)
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.
East-Asia-theme horror visual novel with tarot elements. This game shares the same world with When the Wind Knocks (Ready to Kill) and The Dead Daughter. If you have played that game, you will meet an old friend here.
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CORPSE FACTORY
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
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Sound of Drop - fall into poison -
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.
Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.
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Tokyo Dark
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.
The VR Edition of the critically acclaimed BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness.
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
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Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.
Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".
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The Collector
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.
Multi story collection, experience many different nightmares, integrate physics, plot, battle and other rich content, and provide horror games with continuous content updates.
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死掉的女儿(The Dead Daughter)
Single-player alternative to The Butterfly Collector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.
一款单人心理恐怖视觉小说。玩家只需要持续点击体验文字和图画呈现的主线剧情。流程短但情节引人入胜。