Single-player games like SOULS
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to SOULS, 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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Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SOULS.
Umineko When They Cry is the 2nd series of Sound Novel released by 07th Expansion. The steam version features renewed character sprites which is swappable from the classic art.
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Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with SOULS.
This is the 2nd half of the Umineko When They Cry sound novel series, featuring episodes 5 through 8. This steam version features multi-language options, swap-able renewed character sprites, as well as the original BGMs and un-cut content.
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Mane, Tekel, Fares
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
How much of a human is left in you? "Mane, tekel, fares" is a classic-style text adventure game offering immense freedom of choice and multiple endings, based on the short story collection of the same name. Guide the fates of completely distinct characters across nine highly atmospheric stories.
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RETRIEVAL
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
RETRIEVAL is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore a looping house, collect scattered memory fragments, and search extracted keywords in an old computer terminal to uncover a tragic truth.
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Do I Know You?
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SOULS.
As the manager of a quiet apartment building, your task seems simple. Is the visitor in front of you human—or something else? A dialogue-driven horror game where every detail matters.
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Oh man, a Train.
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
A short modern visual novel in which a young woman wanders into a [theoretically] abandoned train station, only to find people from her past waiting inside.
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SYNESTHESIA
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
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Anamnesia - part 1: am i my body?
Single-player alternative to SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOULS.
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.