Single-player games like Love in Translation
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Love in Translation, 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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Held
Single-player alternative to Love in Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love in Translation.
A short, hand-drawn, wordless interactive story about fatherhood. Hold your newborn, care for them as they grow, and watch as they gradually stop needing your hands.
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Verbena: Tales Of Growing Up
Single-player alternative to Love in Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in Translation.
After a classmate’s murder, you and five love interests must decide—will your final year of high school be a search for the truth or a story of love?
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Affictionate
Single-player alternative to Love in Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love in Translation.
After a year of bad dates and failed job applications, you've nearly given up on the love story you've always written about. One night, you write your perfect man into a notebook... the next day, he becomes a reality. A romance visual novel about identity and the line between fiction and reality.
- 4
TrueClash
Single-player alternative to Love in Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love in Translation.
An emotional visual novel following the journeys of several fighters. Your choices shape their lives and dictate how the story unfolds. These characters have souls of their own—will you bring yours into the mix?
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Merry Crisis
Single-player alternative to Love in Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in Translation.
Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you're headed?
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Open Spaces SE
Single-player alternative to Love in Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love in Translation.
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
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澤水困
Single-player alternative to Love in Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in Translation.
This is a story about a Y2K Asian teenager who needs your guidance. In the game, you make multiple choices that shape a teenager’s growth, with each decision leading to a different path and outcome. Restart his life.
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To Find A Home
Single-player alternative to Love in Translation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Love in Translation.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? A haunted house full of fellow supernaturals. Find love and friendship in this supernatural amare VN with found family feels, 3 love interests and multiple endings.