Single-player games like Punching a Dirty Wizard
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Punching a Dirty Wizard, 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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Toxic Yuri
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Will your relationship be healthy? Disastrous? Completely tepid? The choice is up to you in the only visual novel to prominently feature a literal dead dove.
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Weirdo
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
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Murder Meet Cute
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
Look, just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?
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Sockpuppet Noir
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city. Three delicious cases await your sleuthing skills, each with unique roster of colorful socks and murderous plots.
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A Week to Remember
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.
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Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
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FROG RAIN
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
A sudden downpour turns everyone caught in the rain into frogs. Now I’m surrounded by frogs, and I can’t tell my teachers from my classmates. But that’s beside the point. It’s a new school, after all. I’d better make some friends soon.
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Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
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Mother Hub
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
A retro FPS with an artistically gritty setting from the early 2000's. Uncover futuristic weapons lost to time and face off against terrifying bosses. Do you have what it takes to stand against the darkness and save humanity from the brink of extinction?
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Habilis
Single-player alternative to Punching a Dirty Wizard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Punching a Dirty Wizard.
A first person / body cam, Lovecraft style horror experience not for the weak of heart. Descend into the T.R.P Facility while evading monsters by hide in lockers, and discover over 30 minutes of professionally recorded audio logs.