Single-player games like CARTAGRA
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to CARTAGRA, 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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The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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Magical Girl Witch Trials
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Thirteen girls awaken, only to find themselves in a prison. What awaits them: a Witch Trial. Help them prepare for the trial by exploring the prison in order to find the witch hidden amongst them. Find the witch, learn what kind of magic she holds, dispel the lies, and prepare for the execution.
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Still Life
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Still Life 2 also now available!
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Fate/stay night REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Seek the root of the Fate franchise. Return to where it all began.
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Tokyo Dark
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
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Flowers -Le volume sur printemps-
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Suoh Shirahane, a shy girl with a mysterious past, will begin her first year of high school at Saint Angraecum Academy, where she hopes to find a new beginning. She will navigate friendships and mysteries at her new school, and discovers that love can come in many forms.
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The Shell Part I: Inferno
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
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Flowers -Le volume sur ete-
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Summer has arrived early to Saint Angraecum Academy, and with it comes change. Follow the story of Erika in the second game in the Flowers series.
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Flowers -Le volume sur automne-
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
As the summer heat fades, Suoh Shirahane is just one step away from unraveling the mystery of why her beloved Amitie partner left in the spring.
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Flowers -Le volume sur hiver-
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Suoh finally uncovers the the truth behind Saint Angraecum Academy in this emotional conclusion to the Flowers visual novel series.
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The Shell Part III: Paradiso
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
The coiling chains of obsession that began with The Shell now threaten to strangle Detective Reiji Tokisaka in the third and final entry in the trilogy. As old friends and foes rise up for one last confrontation, can anyone break the cycle—and can Reiji's heart ever be set free?
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Kara no Shojo
Single-player alternative to CARTAGRA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CARTAGRA.
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.