Single-player games like Darling, Darling... Devious!
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Darling, Darling... Devious!, 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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Darling, Darling... Dead?
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
Yandere x yandere x yandere: one must go. Yandere x yandere, a vampire-themed Visual Novel.
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The Fae King Is My Roommate
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
Slice-of-Life Dark Fantasy Romance VN. Your peaceful life as a hermit is rudely interrupted when a ‘delicate young man’ gets himself caught in a mutated Venus flytrap. Will you save him, or let him be eaten? That is, if he even needs saving in the first place.
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The seven days i spent with you
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
With the enigmatic girl who imprisoned you――seven days in an unfamiliar room.
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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
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Lost in Secular Love
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
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.
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A Date with Death
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Cabernet
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
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When The Night Comes
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.
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FFS, Another Northern Duke?!
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
There's only one goal here: survive. Seduce the Duke?! Expelled from the modern world into a novel, you occupy the body of a minor villainess, on her way to marry the beastly Duke of the North. (Why does that sound familiar...) A Fantasy + Romance + Slice-of-Life Otome Visual Novel.
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FFS, Second Lead Syndrome?!
Single-player alternative to Darling, Darling... Devious! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Darling, Darling... Devious!.
There’s only one goal here: Don’t let the Novel’s God send you back to your old life! Isekai Slice-of-Life Romance VN.