Single-player games like Visual Novel: Golden Hostage
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage, 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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Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
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Chants of Sennaar
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
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No Longer Home
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
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Beacon Pines
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
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Papetura
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
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Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.
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Botanicula
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
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Koira
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
Save a puppy and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend.
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Degrees
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Degrees - racing game with two modes: single and multiplayer mode for 4 players. With a view from above, you control the victim machine on the map, which is pursued by hunters. Escape them and hide in the bushes, so it will be harder for them to find you.
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Underwater hunting
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
Underwater hunting: Plunge into the underwater world. Your character-a small fish piranha. The glory of these river predators is truly black - river killers, bloodthirsty robbers, river hyenas, sharks. And she always wants to eat.
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Oil Baron
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
The game has 7 locations with special tasks. You must fulfill them until the end of the day. It can be used to collect N amount of oil or earn several thousand $. To start playing, you need to choose the complexity of the game. There are 5 difficulty levels (easy-normal-difficult-very complicated-insane).
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Oops!!! Puzzles!!!
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
We offer you a puzzle game. The meaning of the game – making a mosaic pattern that you want to add up from a variety of fragments of different shapes. The greatest interest in this game will cause thrill-seekers, as it contains scary pictures (horror).
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Laboratory of Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
You are one of the best fighters of the GIBAR unit, and therefore you were sent to destroy a secret laboratory guarded by armed soldiers. This is a dynamic game with a top view in which you have to survive in a secret laboratory and find a way out of it.
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Base Dune
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
Base Dune 3D is a first-person shooter in which you have to go through a large secret laboratory destroying enemies. You can simply move around the game world and shoot the weapons that are given in the game.
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MOLOGA
Single-player alternative to Visual Novel: Golden Hostage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Visual Novel: Golden Hostage.
Description: in 1935, the leadership of the USSR decided to build a new reservoir in one of the regions of the republic. Almost all people left villages and towns, but some refused to leave their homes.