Single-player games like Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love, 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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我家恋天使太废柴鸟真～可怕
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
HULOTTE’s classic visual novel is now on Steam! After an injury ends his track dream, Sakuma Tsumugi meets a clumsy Love Angel and begins a sweet search for his destined special someone.
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アイアイ喫茶店
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
何気なく頼んだ「アイスコーヒー」の注文が、奥の部屋への「合言葉」になっちゃってる喫茶店。 1周5分の、ちょっとおかしくて怪しいマルチエンドADV。
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LOVEPICAL-POPPY!
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
From renowned Japanese visual novel brand SMEE, LOVEPICAL-POPPY!, the ultimate moege, arrives on Steam! Made for SMEE’s 15th anniversary and celebrating 150k+ sales, it keeps the brand’s signature sweetness while adding life-sim gameplay and a unique story progression system.
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私のリアルは充実しすぎている フルボイス版
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
顔良し、頭良し、性格良し。 完全無欠のリア充女子が送るドタバタラブコメディ！（たぶん）
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I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
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Love, Elections, and Chocolate
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
Love, Elections, and Chocolate is a romantic visual novel developed by the Japanese game studio Sprite. Upon its release in Japan, it garnered numerous awards for its exceptional art, captivating music, and well-crafted characters.
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I Wani Hug that Gator!
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.
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Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
Follow Yamato and his friends as they navigate the friendships, rivalries, and martial arts of Kawakami Academy.
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Sankaku Renai: Love Triangle Trouble
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
Meet Sousuke. He's just your average student, living in a rural town. Ever since his father remarried when he was young, he's been living together with his little sister Nanaru. Together with his childhood friend Maho and their other friends, they have fun geeking out in the Otaku Club.
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Renai X Royale - Love's a Battle
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
I, transfer student Hanamaru Mari, love you, Komachi Hiro-kun! Please go out with me! Our protag, Komachi Hirotaka. Every day, he goes through the motions-- dodging his cunning underclassman's advances, accidentally hitting on the student council president, and chasing idols.
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Renai Karichaimashita: Koikari - Love For Hire
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
Due to family circumstances, Yuki has only one belief: money will make his little sister happy. And thus, he works part-time jobs late into the night. His plan is to start working full-time after graduation, but his little sister tells him that if he won't go to university, then she won't either.
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Futamata Ren'ai: Two Times the Trouble
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Koga Nao never knew his life would take a wild turn when a night out at a college drinking party would result in a messy relationship with Toiro Kirame. Now forced to date her, his life only gets more complicated when his longtime crush, Nobuta Yua, decides to confess to him!
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Ren'ai 0 Kilometer
Single-player alternative to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.
"Love 0 Kilometers" is a novel game with choices. The ending will change depending on the choices you make. Through a limited-time family swap, the protagonist spends time with his childhood friend, deepening his relationship with a cute girl and enjoying special conversations.