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Single-player games like Back:Fade

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Back:Fade, 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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    Back — Steam game cover

    Back

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back:Fade.

    《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.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blood Money: Lethal Eden — Steam game cover

    Blood Money: Lethal Eden

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Back:Fade.

    Lured by an online lover, you're trapped in a scam compound—a true hell where compassion kills and greed consumes. Will you burn this abyss down or be its guiding light? Rule with beauty or betray for life? Your choices decide all: between life and death, heaven and hell.

    2026SimulationRPGCasual8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Superscout — Steam game cover

    Superscout

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back:Fade.

    "Superscout" is a live-action interactive movie game where you will unravel the secrets of the girls you meet. The love beyond lifetimes, never let it go; the kindness in this life, engraved in your soul. Your choices will change your loved ones’ fate; those who love you will change yours...

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time — Steam game cover

    Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back:Fade.

    Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation10.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Road to Empress I — Steam game cover

    Road to Empress I

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back:Fade.

    You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation8.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Joker's Game — Steam game cover

    The Joker's Game

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Back:Fade.

    "The Joker's Game" is an FMV crime battle royale. Jack, drowning in debt, joins a lethal game. Critical choices, even small ones, shape outcomes. Outwit rivals, uncover truths, or perish? Every move decides survival... or the deadly prize.

    2025StrategyAdventureSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    咸鱼殿下 / My journey — Steam game cover

    咸鱼殿下 / My journey

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Back:Fade.

    This is a Interactive Live-Action Game. You will travel back in time to become a noble Highness and experience the local customs and practices of ancient times. A series of your choices will influence the development trajectory of this world.

    2025AdventureSimulationRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Game Of Fate 3:Clash Of Crowns — Steam game cover

    Game Of Fate 3:Clash Of Crowns

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Back:Fade.

    An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case. Confused and disoriented, you discover that the victim is your own descendant. Gunfire erupts, chaos escalates, and schemes unfold within schemes... Don’t want to be a pawn? How to become the player?

    2025AdventureSimulationRPG16.79 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    女神的贴身男仆 — Steam game cover

    女神的贴身男仆

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back:Fade.

    "Service of Five Graces"​ is a romance FMV. You play as Lin Ye. One day, you wake up to find you've become the personal butler to the five ladies!? To repay your father's debts, you have no choice but to step into this mansion, beginning a strange life of being "ordered around" by five young women.

    2026IndieSimulationRPG6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pact Between Us — Steam game cover

    Pact Between Us

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back:Fade.

    "Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TryAndLove — Steam game cover

    TryAndLove

    Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back:Fade.

    A man's life is a life of pursuing love. The childish love of childhood sweethearts? White Moonlight's pure love? Ignorant of the astringent love of forbidden fruit? Blind love like a moth flying into a flame? True love that transcends the world? Act Ren Xing and make a willful choice.

    2024IndieSimulationRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →