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Single-player games like Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Guarded by the AI: Painted with 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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    量化情绪 — Steam game cover

    量化情绪

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    《量化情绪》是一款近未来科幻二次元风格的文字冒险游戏。2036年,可以将人类情绪精确量化为指数的“量化情绪”系统已经被建立。转校生洛舟某日获得了查看、调节他人情绪的能力。借助这项能力,洛舟很快在学校站稳脚跟、并期望以此能与分别已久、流言缠身的青梅竹马柔歌重新交好。但当幸福可以被调节出来时,你还愿意付出真实的代价吗? 游戏有极具特色的近未来世界观和情绪系统设定,单女主线,玩家需要通过名为“铃铛视界”的小游戏,获取其他角色的情绪查看权限和调节权限,并做出选择,导向四种不同结局(沉默线、殉道者线、行尸线和希望线)。

    StrategyIndieRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ego's Spark — Steam game cover

    Ego's Spark

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Is this a nascent ego—or just a nasty bug? Crash headfirst into cuddles, comfort, and maybe even love in this short visual novel about robots and the human heart.

    2024Adventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Event-D — Steam game cover

    Event-D

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Sci-fi Visual Novel (Linear Story). A group of astronauts, scientists and robots is sent to space on a mission to investigate the disturbing disappearance of the first manned spaceship in its journey to Mars.

    2018Adventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    天のゆくるる — Steam game cover

    天のゆくるる

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    僕たちは──すべての計画に、失敗する。 🎋落ちこぼれ天文部達の青春群像劇を描くドラマチックノベル! 🎬文庫三冊分に及ぶ青春ドラマ 🍎ゼロ年代懐古的雰囲気 🍏暴走オマージュ破滅!

    2023IndieAdventure17.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AI Dreams of Roses of Desert — Steam game cover

    AI Dreams of Roses of Desert

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    On her way home from work, Ruri picked up Aizen, a male prostitute android who was abandoned in a corner of the city. Ruri stayed up all night repairing Aizen, but because the owner of Aizen neglected regular inspections, she was able to keep her body for five days.

    2023IndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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     KORA — Steam game cover

    KORA

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.

    2026IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Last Days — Steam game cover

    Last Days

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    The gods have blessed New Canaan for four hundred years, and everyone - including Sister Ginsetsu - thought it would go on forever, until the day Ginsetsu met the gods of New Canaan. Since then, the story between the maiden who calls herself a god, and the maiden who will become a god has begun.

    2021IndieRPGCasual1.59 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Locus Equation — Steam game cover

    Locus Equation

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    You are an anthropod, a synthetically crafted life form. Your objective is to save the ones who are stuck on an uninhabited planet. Persuade, charm, manipulate: use your ultimate power—freedom of choice—in sci-fi role playing hyper variative game LOCUS EQUATION.

    2027IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Readerpet — Steam game cover

    Readerpet

    Single-player alternative to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    Grimalkin is a small pixel cat who believes you should be reading. Log your books, grow a garden where every plant is a story you finished, and let him keep you company — in the game, or docked at the bottom of your screen while you work. Free, cozy, and quietly judgmental.

    2026IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →