Single-player games like Back:Fade
Below are 16 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
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.
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Cellveillance
Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Back:Fade.
"Cellveillance" is a detective drama entertainment product, you will visit the apartment every day, and the entire apartment is responsible for everything that happens in the apartment, a mysterious organization asks you to return the information of the residents.
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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.
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下一个就是你
Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Back:Fade.
你跟随秦苏言调查一起十年前的学生跳楼事件时,突然收到了两封神秘的邮件。一封邀请你参加高中毕业十周年聚会,另一封则警告你如果继续调查“下一个就是你”。察觉异样的你决定赴会,试图找到更多的线索,却被卷入了一场“密室狼人杀”的局中。面对生死,是善念的互助,还是释放人性中的恶意?
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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...
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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.
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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.
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规则怪谈:盛崖小区
Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back:Fade.
这是一款怪谈类剧情游戏。在宏大的原创世界观下你需要一步步探索盛崖小区的“全貌”,你能做到仅仅是依靠“规则”在这里觅得一线生机。你可以假装无事发生,安然度日;也可以想尽办法,逃出生天;或许你也可以直面它,成为它的一部分……但无论如何,请你记住,保持理智,遵守规则。
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Mystery Case Files: Black Crown Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Back:Fade.
A visit to Manchester Asylum takes a dangerous turn into madness!
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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.
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天平游戏1:抉择
Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back:Fade.
《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme. You will face surveillance, cages, and the fates of eight trapped women—every choice you make decides life and death for others and yourself.
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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.
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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.
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Survivor's Notes
Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Back:Fade.
"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock diverse story branches and endings. When a doomsday-dreaming civilian meets an apocalypse survivor, time, memory and fate intertwine. They seek truth in a crumbling city, closing in on a buried answer.
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Lord Return
Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back:Fade.
《Lord Return》is an interactive fiction game about rebirth and revenge. Play as a twice‑betrayed Demon Lord’s soul bound to the Beauty Destiny System. Unmask impostors, stop world‑ending schemes, battle at Fallen Demon Cliff, protect your loved ones, and face the ultimate high‑dimensional trial.
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Force Purge
Single-player alternative to Back:Fade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Back:Fade.
《Force Purge》is a visual novel investigation, and branching storytelling. Play as Wang Taqing, team up with psychic cop Lin Mengzhu. Investigate haunted cases, uncover the Sword Lenders’ conspiracy to open the ghost gate and fight the underworld invasion to decide the fate of the mortal world.