Single-player games like Anime Studio Simulator
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Anime Studio Simulator, 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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1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum is the latest story-driven RPG from Black Chicken Studios, inc., spinning tales of pulp adventure, exotic locations, occult horror, and romance that'll require well-honed skills.
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How To Date A Magical Girl!
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?
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Magical Princess
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!
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Time Tenshi (2015)
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
The Time Window...An incredible invention, developed over decades in secret, empowers humans to make their grandest dream a reality...To travel through time!At a hidden research facility, Rose and Kyo - the Time Tenshi (Time Angels) - voyage into the past in secret under the watchful eye of...
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Sunrider Academy
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
You are Kayto Shields, an ordinary man thrown into an extraordinary adventure. Control Kayto's day to day life as well as his responsibilities as club manager in this stat management sim.
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Anime City
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
Anime City is a Japanese high school simulator, focused on anime culture and aesthetics. Study, join school clubs, and make friends.
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Princess Maker Refine
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
"Princess Maker" pioneered the raising simulation genre with its innovative "raising a daughter" system. The concept of taking in a 10-year-old girl and nurturing her into a mature woman through the player's love and care was groundbreaking at the time and remains popular today.
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Monster Prom
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
You have 3 weeks to get a date for Monster Prom! Go through absurd and funny situations, raise your stats and seduce one of your classmates. Beautiful art, bold, unapologetic dialogue and hard choices make up this Multiplayer (1-4 players) Dating Sim. Be your worst self.
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Eternal Radiance
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Eternal Radiance is an action role-playing game about a squire named Celeste who begins a journey to prove herself worthy of becoming a true knight.
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Rat Simulator
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime Studio Simulator.
A survival stealth role-playing simulator where you play as a rat in a suburban neighborhood.
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Ascendant Hearts
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anime Studio Simulator.
A visual novel where you wake up in a strange new world before going on a real-life RPG adventure with three wacky party members.
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Chaos Souls
Single-player alternative to Anime Studio Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anime Studio Simulator.
Chaos Souls is a 2.5D side-scrolling action game where you play as Eris, who must fight her way through monsters across several different zones to save her sister from demons.