Single-player games like Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim, 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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Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Experience the non-groundbreaking, non-award winning VN/RPG, Army of Tentacles, in all its DLC glory! Comes with New Game+ Benefits, the most amazing Cthulhu Dating Sim in the universe, as well as Halloween, SDCC, the Sequel outfits, and the item packs!
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Apples Busy Day
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Apples Busy Day is a short and cozy game about exploring and helping your silly neighbors. Come check out all Apple has to do on the island of fruit!
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Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Enter a Lovecraftian world where an unsanctioned Apocalypse is underway. In your quest to save the world (in an attempt to end it THE RIGHT WAY), you will recruit monsters, fight other monsters, and learn valuable life lessons. It's an RPG, folks.
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Broken Minds
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Broken minds is a CASUAL TURN COMBAT RPG, with a rich lore, where you control a 13 year old boy, in a mission to overcome his trauma
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Video Game Fables
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Funny, lighthearted RPG with fast, unique, challenging, turn-based combat set in a creative, colorful, abandoned game world that hasn't had a player in decades.
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Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
It's got action! It's got romance! In this RPG-Dating Sim, gather your party and try to settle a centuries-old dispute among your monster and human classmates! The fate of Winter Prom is at stake!
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Super Gorilla Quest 2: A Space Chimpanzee
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Super Gorilla Quest 2: A Space Chimpanzee is a surreal comedy-filled RPG about four primates attempting to stop humans from destroying the universe.
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Damned Daniel
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
The story of a failing business and its owner desperate to pull it out of the gutter. Even if that means turning to an unknown, sinister figure with an even more sinister book. Follow Daniel through shady adventures, battle monsters in turn based combat, and watch as his conscience ebbs away...
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The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
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Cthulhu Saves the World
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
The lord of insanity, Cthulhu was all set to plunge the world into insanity and destruction when his powers were sealed by a mysterious sorcerer. The only way for him to break the curse is to become a true hero. Save the world to destroy it in an epic parody RPG journey of redemption, romance, and insanity!
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.
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The Ghost of Joe Papp
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Welcome to Joe Papp, Nevada. A theater town where local legends spring to life and nobody knows quite what to do with their lives.
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Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date?
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Welcome to Elsinore Academy, a proving ground for young royalty; where people from all over the globe come for higher learning, and the cheerleaders are literal witches. Are you ready to enroll? Maybe get with Othello? Eh? EH?
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Inexplicable Geeks: Dawn of Just Us
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Enter a world of ridiculously underpowered superheroes as you navigate a comic and pop culture convention celebrating their history. Gather stories, piece together history, and interact with the denizens of the super and the geek.
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Paper Shakespeare: The Legend of Rainbow Hollow
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Explore a post-apocalyptic world and solve puzzles using that big brain of yours. Discover the secrets of the universe! Be awesome!
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Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY!
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Enter a village full of talking, anthropomorphic animals. Find out their secrets. Make friends.
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Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice
Single-player alternative to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.
Shakespeare's classic play about intolerance, bigotry, and revenge. Told only as stick figures can.