Single-player games like Empty Horizons
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Empty Horizons, 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
- 1
The End of an Actress
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A historical romance VN about a feckless queen and an impoverished revolutionary based on the life (and death) of Marie Antoinette. Your choices determine whether the capricious Queen Liliane loses her head... or her heart.
- 2
Sophistry - Love & Despair
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
How far will you go to fulfil Cherryl's dream before this one turns into a nightmare? All the choices you make will matter and carry over across the various episodes.
- 3
With Eyes of Ice
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
An atmospheric, dramatic otome-esque visual novel set in Iceland in the 1800s. Follow the kind-hearted heroine, Gréta, as she finds herself caught between the affections of three handsome men who care for her in different ways.
- 4
Unluckily in Love
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A cute boys love / BL / yaoi visual novel about a slowly developing romantic relationship between a couple of cousins.
- 5
Lost in Secular Love
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.
- 6
我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
Trapped in a game of dreams, where the price of failing to escape is eternal slumber. Across shifting worlds, you meet 'him.' Is he merely a kindred spirit born of crisis, or a forgotten soul from your distant memories? A heart-pounding romance adventure across the dreamscape—begins now!
- 7
Bakumatsu Renka SHINSENGUMI
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This is a romance game for women where you become the first female soldier in the Shinsengumi, fight alongside the other soldiers, and fall in love. Experience historical battles alongside the likes of Kondo, Hijikata, and Okita.
- 8
BeYourCat
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
"Be Your Cat " is a real love game,like an experience in life, one interesting dream. We all wish we had superpowers, but what would you do if one day you had superpowers, but not like Superman? What will you do with your limited abilities? How does it affect and change the people around you?
- 9
Blackberry Honey
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.
- 10
Sweetest Monster
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
- 11
Her Love, Like Poison
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
- 12
Cage of Roses
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
- 13
Strawberry Vinegar
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
- 14
The Fairy's Song
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A yuri / lesbian visual novel set in the UK. Marnie, a bored goth girl, accidentally stumbles upon a sleeping female knight in the forest. Together, the pair must work to break a centuries-old curse, while romantic feelings between them begin to grow.
- 15
Rituals in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empty Horizons.
A lesbian / yuri romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough. Our heroine, Aspen, meets the mysterious, beautiful Althea in the dead of night, but who is Althea really...?
- 16
The Way We All Go (2015)
Single-player alternative to Empty Horizons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Empty Horizons.
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?