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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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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Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
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BACKUP_71
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
A psychological horror investigation and survival game where you explore a house full of secrets, faces the living unkow, solve puzzles, use a fully interactive retro computer, and uncover a decades-old conspiracy.
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One Life, One Chronicle
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
A narrative-driven deckbuilding strategy game. Deeds, ties, skills, and scars shape what follows. Rebuild your deck before each clash; enemy moves lie open. Rumors entangle lives; clashes decide life and death. At life's end, all is written into one chronicle. One run, one life, one chronicle.
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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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"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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Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG
Single-player alternative to Sterile Childhood: Case 17 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Azmar Quest is a text-based RPG with turn-based battles and old-school vibes. Choose your class from Warrior, Cleric, Witch or Archer, follow a 20-hour story, make choices that can change the ending, and fight 100+ enemies. You can also play online PvP battles and co-op Dungeons.
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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.