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Single-player games like Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel, 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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    Sovietpunk: Chapter one — Steam game cover

    Sovietpunk: Chapter one

    Single-player alternative to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel.

    Sovietpunk is a cyberpunk story set in the setting of the Soviet Union after a global nuclear war. You have to guide the main character through the gloomy tunnels, in which the struggle for life is in full swing.

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    r u n a w a y s — Steam game cover

    r u n a w a y s

    Single-player alternative to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel.

    A survival horror RPG that follows a pair of runaways escaping a hostile nighttime suburbia.

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    Univocity — Steam game cover

    Univocity

    Single-player alternative to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel.

    Univocity is a short cyberpunk visual novel wrapped in neon aesthetics with a lush atmospheric soundtrack, featuring a deep and emotional conversation between two people about taking down a global tech monopoly.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Transregnum — Steam game cover

    Transregnum

    Single-player alternative to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel.

    Step into a dystopian visual novel where secrets, betrayal, and self-discovery collide. Follow Garrett Marek's text-driven journey through a world ruled by Deus Magnus Rotamea. Unravel family mysteries, confront fate, and explore a linear story where every revelation brings you closer to the truth!

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    Meet Her There — Steam game cover

    Meet Her There

    Single-player alternative to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel.

    A short, intense, dark visual narrative in 2 colors. You are stuck reliving a single day, over and over. Explore a tiny, giant world of a relationship between two people. Don't get arrested. Try to reach the person you love and escape the cursed time loop. Is it not too late?

    2023IndieAdventureCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mental Break — Steam game cover

    Mental Break

    Single-player alternative to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel.

    Manage our AI girlfriend product as the newest engagement lead at Bigger Tech Corp. Make the tough choices for Alice as she slowly drives her user insane. A satirical choose-your-own-adventure with beautiful pixel art and widely branching narrative.

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    CyberControl: Another Life — Steam game cover

    CyberControl: Another Life

    Single-player alternative to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel.

    An interactive cyberpunk drama where you live the life of a border officer in a brutal future ruled by tyranny, manipulation, and survival. Check documents, approve or deny entry, build relationships, and face nonlinear stories.

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    Ritual — Steam game cover

    Ritual

    Single-player alternative to Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel.

    The Ritual is what so many are afraid of, it is not known where it came from, but is it really so? What is his secret, why people take actions because of him, exhausting themselves and, in the end, dying. Can't no one be able to overcome this attack?

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