Single-player games like This World Unknown
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to This World Unknown, 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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Anicon - Animal Complex - Rabbit's Path
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
A romance, comedy, fantasy Visual Novel - filled with adventures, misadventures, adorable animals, brother conflicts, circus cleaning, collecting puzzle pieces, and more - all in one package!
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Empty Horizons
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This World Unknown.
Following the sudden death of her father, Mireille Maiorano is sent to live with her uncle in France. Enter Lyon, a tactless, perverse Frenchman charged with escorting to Mireille to her new home. She hates him passionately, with everything she has... so why does he make her heart flutter?
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Seduce Me 2: The Demon War
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
Seduce Me 2: The Demon War is the sequel to the popular free-to-play otome game, Seduce Me the Otome. It follows the story of Mika Anderson as she is suddenly thrown into the Abyssal Plains right before she is about to be married to one of the five Incubi Brothers featured in the first game.
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SoulSet
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
SoulSet is a mystery/romance visual novel, in which you can try to avoid death and pursue a relationship with both male and female characters. You play as Mariko, who finds herself trapped in an eerie mansion with five other people who claim to have no recollection of their past. Who will you trust?
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Crossroad
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
Every granddaughter visits her grandmother for tea and something delicious to eat. Lumy is no different from millions of other girls. That is, except for one thing…
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甜点恋人 / Pastry Lovers
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
Pastry Lovers is an adventure simulation game that sets in a fantastic Pastry Kingdom. Sakura, the main character, grows into a pastry master and gains romantic love.
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Strawberry Vinegar
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
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Area-X
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
is a blend between Visual Novel and Adventure Game. Follow the story of Elcia as she time travels and solves the mysteries of her surroundings.
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The Way We All Go (2015)
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This World Unknown.
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?
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A Winter's Daydream
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This World Unknown.
A boy returns to his countryside home after spending half a year in the city, only to discover the unimaginable — his elderly grandmother has transformed into a cute young girl! Hijinks ensue.
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The Mermaid of Zennor
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with This World Unknown.
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
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Blackberry Honey
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.
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Sweetest Monster
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
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Her Love, Like Poison
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with This World Unknown.
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.
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Cage of Roses
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This World Unknown.
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.
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The Fairy's Song
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This World Unknown.
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.
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Rituals in the Dark
Single-player alternative to This World Unknown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This World Unknown.
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...?