Single-player games like Sterile Childhood: Case 17
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Sterile Childhood: Case 17, 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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"Erase -missing link-" Cthulhu Mythos Card Game ADV
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
A Tabletop role-playing game-style card game adventure that delves into the mysteries of the Cthulhu Mythos. You play card games, grow your skills by interacting with people, get information by exploring, and solve the mythical incidents by unraveling the secrets hidden in the cards.
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Chinese Strange Stories
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Step into a living Chinese painting that blends the mystical, supernatural, and the struggles of daily life in the final years of the Ming dynasty. Experience a unique mix of classic turn-based RPG mechanics and dynamic card battling, where strategy and fate intertwine.
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Project Serial
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
This city eats people. Don the mask of a serial killer in this deckbuilding roguelike interactive story-based RPG. Become The Loner and explore the rhetoric of your mind, defuse gangs and psychopaths, massacre your enemies, and unravel the secrets of the city.
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Rogue Reigns
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Rogue Reigns is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about trust and sacrifice. Lead selfish antiheroes through a world where death is no more, and something still hunts them. Build synergies that bind them or rivalries that break them. Nobody dies, some are sacrificed, but everybody is condemned.
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Memento: What You Forgot
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Memento is a psychological narrative game with a card-based combat system. You play a man with no memory. Every memory you reclaim becomes a card in your deck, your means to face those who marked you. Walking through eight primary emotions.
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Battle Suit Aces
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Battle Suit Aces is a Saturday morning cartoon where you're at the helm! Grow your roster of charming mech pilots as you immerse yourself in thrilling story missions and charge into card combat. Suit Up!
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THE SPIRIT LIFT
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
A retro horror deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel in the 1990s. Choose your teens, explore and fight! If you die rewind the night!
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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!