Single-player games like Freshman Year
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Freshman Year, 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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how do you Do It?
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
"how do you Do It?" puts players in the role of an 11-year-old girl whose mother has just stepped out for an errand. The girl immediately grabs her dolls and furtively attempts to figure out how sex works using these plastic surrogates.
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Invisible Apartment
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Cyberpunk Visual Novel about a girl hacker struggling in a modern World. The story revolves around surveillance, hacking, artificial intelligence, cybernetic implants and those who want to lead a normal life in a high-tech society.
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Cibele
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Cibele is a game about love, sex, and the internet. You play as a 19 year old girl who has become close with a young man she met in an online game. Her relationship with him heats up, becoming more and more intimate with each phone call and private chat.
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Journal
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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A Mortician's Tale
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.
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The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
An interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who must find a way to make some oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. One simple task, can you help her complete it?
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Florence
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.
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Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
A visual short story set in Nebraska, Three Fourths Home follows an extended conversation between Kelly and her family during a drive home through an intense thunderstorm.
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We Met in May
Single-player alternative to Freshman Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
We met in May and went on a lot of dates. This is a collection of vignette games about those dates, and the comedy that comes with getting to know someone.