Single-player games like Puppetry
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Puppetry, 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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Road to Empress I
Single-player alternative to Puppetry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Puppetry.
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.
- 2
Sorry! I surrounded beauty!
Single-player alternative to Puppetry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Puppetry.
You embody Chen Mo, embark on a romantic journey through a first-person perspective. Throughout your interactions with different girls, you must navigate divergent choices, confront critical challenges, and gradually unravel the hidden truths woven into the story’s core.
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PatriotMemoirs
Single-player alternative to Puppetry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Puppetry.
Shangchuan, 1939, Japanese-occupied. By day a bowing traitor, by night a ghost, in Demon's Lair, No. 86. All wear masks: pretend, kill, survive. When sacrificing a friend is the only way, when betrayed, when only isolated cities remain - fight to the end, live a coward, or take an unimagined path?
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Love Is All Around
Single-player alternative to Puppetry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Puppetry.
The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.
- 5
A Love Letter in Snowfall
Single-player alternative to Puppetry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Puppetry.
<A Love Letter in Snowfall> is a live-action, multi-ending interactive romance movie game. As a young B&B keeper in a small southern town, you meet, and fall for a visiting actress—every choice rewrites your love story. Meet someone, and fall in love that trembles in bones.
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Superscout
Single-player alternative to Puppetry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Puppetry.
"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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Love Love Mystery Club
Single-player alternative to Puppetry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Puppetry.
In Love Love Mystery Club, you’re the newest member of the Detective Club at a seemingly ordinary high school. Through Full Motion Video (FMV) storytelling, your choices steer the narrative—will your heart find tenderness… or will hidden horrors emerge from the darkness?
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Heroines Through My Lens
Single-player alternative to Puppetry — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Puppetry.
“Me? A lookbook shoot?!” New hire Kim Jiwoo joins YouTube studio Lazaworks and gets thrown into photographing top youtubers and his own bosses on day one. Under the bright lights, stolen glances turn into secret favors and forbidden romances. The more you shoot, the more hearts stolen.