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Single-player games like Chess of Blades

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Chess of Blades, 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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    Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator — Steam game cover

    Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.

    Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. Are you ready? Hi ready, I'm Dad.

    2017IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    寄甡  Symbiotic Love — Steam game cover

    寄甡 Symbiotic Love

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.

    《寄甡》是一款百合向视觉小说游戏,讲述了一场现代百合版、宛如“罗密欧与朱丽叶”的凄美爱情故事。

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Highway Blossoms — Steam game cover

    Highway Blossoms

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.

    A yuri visual novel about Amber, a girl who's trying her best to be alone on the road, until she stumbles upon a young hitchhiker and the journal of a prospector from long ago. Fully voiced in English.

    2016IndieCasual12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Seduce Me 2: The Demon War — Steam game cover

    Seduce Me 2: The Demon War

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.

    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.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heart of the Woods — Steam game cover

    Heart of the Woods

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.

    A fantasy yuri visual novel filled with magic, fairies, and a ghost girl. When Maddie and her best friend, Tara, journey to a remote forest village to investigate rumors of the supernatural, they find a whole lot more than they bargained for.

    2019IndieCasual14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Back from the other world, I missed love. — Steam game cover

    Back from the other world, I missed love.

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.

    Defeat the Demon King and find your next adventure in an office with goddess-like colleagues. You, as a rookie hero with magical powers, connect with captivating stars like Saika Kawakita, Ai Uehara, and Yui Mihama.

    2025IndieRPGCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    咕啾!文鸟恋爱物语 Love Story of Sparrow — Steam game cover

    咕啾!文鸟恋爱物语 Love Story of Sparrow

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.

    “上学途中惊现电车痴汉?好兄弟满脑子是关于我的黄色废料?生活终于要对我这只小公雀下手了吗┭┮﹏┭┮”,欢迎各位走进大型鸟类恋爱ACG游戏——《咕啾!文鸟恋爱物语》。

    2019IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heaven Will Be Mine — Steam game cover

    Heaven Will Be Mine

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chess of Blades.

    HEAVEN WILL BE MINE is a visual novel about making terrible life decisions in the midst of a hot-blooded battle between giant robots. Select one of three terribly behaved girls to fight and/or make out with each other in their struggle for the fate of space.

    2018Indie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Red Embrace: Hollywood — Steam game cover

    Red Embrace: Hollywood

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.

    1996—Los Angeles, CA. A young newcomer is turned into a vampire and thrust into the dark underworld of society, forced to sink or swim. You are that newcomer.

    2019IndieCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Red Embrace — Steam game cover

    Red Embrace

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Chess of Blades.

    A normal graveyard shift at a dingy diner in San Francisco... until a mysterious customer arrives, bringing with him a war between vampires.

    2018Casual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Requiescence — Steam game cover

    Requiescence

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Chess of Blades.

    Dive into the story of Kymil, a young ice mage on a quest to unravel the mystery behind his uncle's death. As the world you know shatters around you, will you find a place for romance while the stakes climb higher?

    2016Casual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pale Cachexia — Steam game cover

    Pale Cachexia

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Chess of Blades.

    A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.

    2021Casual5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Self-Checkout Unlimited — Steam game cover

    Self-Checkout Unlimited

    Single-player alternative to Chess of Blades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Chess of Blades.

    Explore and unravel the mall of your mind in this surreal adventure game.

    2020IndieCasual7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →