Single-player games like The Darkness Delivers
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Darkness Delivers, 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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Night Town
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
"In this game you're a resident of Night Town, a town where sleeping at night is taboo. What's really happening there?The game addresses the issue as subtle and bright as possible, it won't be too dark on the road ahead. There is mystery, and there is love.So, how will you choose?"
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Miss Sasami is Losing Her Mind!
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
A light-hearted lesbian romance between a tired office lady and a gyaru foxgirl. Make choices as Sasami and pursue a relationship with the cheerful Mirai, or risk ruining it.
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Reanimation Scheme
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
An otome game and romance visual novel. Step into the shoes of the necromancer, Raenelle. Meet a colorful cast of characters, fail to summon the spirits of the dead, unravel mysteries, and maybe — just maybe — fall in love.
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Paradise
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.
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Cage of Roses
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Darkness Delivers.
A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
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Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Darkness Delivers.
Olive is trapped in school in the midst of the apocalypse! With demons slaughtering every dog in sight there's only so many left to spend time with! Will their special someone be Brownie the snack-loving corgi, Sparky the sporty husky or Patches the dalmatian bookworm? You decide!
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Misericorde: Volume One
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.
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恋爱绮谭~不存在的夏天~
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
九省通衢之地的阴影里，不知名的存在正在蠢蠢欲动。普通到极点的学生顾韦，作为“非日常部”的一员，和女友苏半夏开始调查“虚拟偶像消失事件”的传闻。讲述都市怪谈的可疑直播间，废墟一般的住宅楼，等待在两人前方的是……
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Blackberry Honey
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Darkness Delivers.
A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.
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Sweetest Monster
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
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Her Love, Like Poison
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
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Strawberry Vinegar
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
- 13
The Fairy's Song
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkness Delivers.
A yuri / lesbian visual novel set in the UK. Marnie, a bored goth girl, accidentally stumbles upon a sleeping female knight in the forest. Together, the pair must work to break a centuries-old curse, while romantic feelings between them begin to grow.
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Rituals in the Dark
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Darkness Delivers.
A lesbian / yuri romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough. Our heroine, Aspen, meets the mysterious, beautiful Althea in the dead of night, but who is Althea really...?
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The Way We All Go (2015)
Single-player alternative to The Darkness Delivers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Darkness Delivers.
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?