Single-player games like Vida
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Vida, 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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Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing
Single-player alternative to Vida — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Vida.
Finding true love is hard enough when it’s in person! Build a relationship through the screen as a couple copes with lockdown life by staying connected online! Will their love be loud and clear, or will their signals fade away?
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When It Falls
Single-player alternative to Vida — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Vida.
An apocalyptic Ice Age approaches the automatic doors of your convenience store. Scrape together what you need to survive through bartering or outright scamming in this short narrative game. In the end, only you can judge yourself.
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Coffee Talk
Single-player alternative to Vida — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Vida.
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
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花奴令 Huanu Poems
Single-player alternative to Vida — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Vida.
Huanu Poems is a multi-ending love adventure game. As a photographer, carrying the secret of being a bloodline inheritor of HuaNu Town, you will take lovely Peach to run a B&B, encounter gentle Cloudia. Your choices will affect the direction of the story.
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Neo Cab
Single-player alternative to Vida — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Vida.
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
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2064: Read Only Memories
Single-player alternative to Vida — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Vida.
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
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Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Single-player alternative to Vida — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Vida.
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
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Ceiba
Single-player alternative to Vida — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Vida.
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.