Single-player games like Once on a windswept night
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Once on a windswept night, 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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The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Once on a windswept night.
A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?
- 2
Lucid9: Inciting Incident
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Free To Play and Casual with Once on a windswept night.
Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
- 3
CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Once on a windswept night.
"Love is both poison and cure, both knife and remedy." Set in 18th Century France, this is a gothic romance tale about loss, revenge and the different faces of love.
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Winds of Change
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Once on a windswept night.
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
- 5
Connected Hearts - Visual novel
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Once on a windswept night.
Gary is caught in a strange dream and now he must overcome the adversities on his path or perish in the attempt. In this adventure you will meet 3 children in dream-like scenarios, next to a mysterious girl who talks about a promise.
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Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Once on a windswept night.
Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?
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The NOexistenceN of you AND me
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Once on a windswept night.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
- 8
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master is a girls-love adventure game set in a small game studio.
- 9
Blackberry Honey
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Once on a windswept night.
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 Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Once on a windswept night.
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 Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Once on a windswept night.
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 Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Once on a windswept night.
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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Strawberry Vinegar
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Once on a windswept night.
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 Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Once on a windswept night.
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 Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Once on a windswept night.
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...?
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The Way We All Go (2015)
Single-player alternative to Once on a windswept night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Once on a windswept night.
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?