Single-player games like The Ghost of Joe Papp
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Ghost of Joe Papp, 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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WTC : Recruitment Day
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
After Grendel Jinx is mugged, she chases after the thief, determined to retrieve her possessions - and also recruit the person responsible
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Axiom Alternative II
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Sacking an employee from The Violet Hotel soon becomes unwanted news on Grendel's malicious web blog. Can the protagonist stop Grendel from causing further problems ?
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Bistro Days
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Eat, drink, and fall in love at Bellflower Bistro. Bistro Days is a fun, over-the-top romantic story with choice-driven plots and multiple endings.
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LOVE ! again ... - Episode 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
In LOVE! again... every choice leads to consequences. Choose your romance, and write your own story.
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Going Your Own Way - Episode One
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Going Your Own Way is a visual novel that allows you to make choices that will help a young man trying to understand his place in the world while dealing with the recent ending of a long-term relationship, the challenges of modern dating, and a toxic workplace.
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To Be or Not To Be
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!
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Until The End
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
In Until The End, you play as Zoe, a young nurse who has just graduated. At the Montagne Institute, you will help her make the best decisions for the well-being of her patients in a palliative care unit.
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Inexplicable Geeks: Dawn of Just Us
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Enter a world of ridiculously underpowered superheroes as you navigate a comic and pop culture convention celebrating their history. Gather stories, piece together history, and interact with the denizens of the super and the geek.
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Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
At long last, the works of H.P. Lovecraft meet the medium of RPG in a spectacle of light and sound befitting an old western. Only this is set in New England. Meet interesting people! See astounding wonders! Enslave humanity! Go on one date side quest in a game subtitled a dating simulator!
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Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Enter a Lovecraftian world where an unsanctioned Apocalypse is underway. In your quest to save the world (in an attempt to end it THE RIGHT WAY), you will recruit monsters, fight other monsters, and learn valuable life lessons. It's an RPG, folks.
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Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date?
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Welcome to Elsinore Academy, a proving ground for young royalty; where people from all over the globe come for higher learning, and the cheerleaders are literal witches. Are you ready to enroll? Maybe get with Othello? Eh? EH?
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Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Experience the non-groundbreaking, non-award winning VN/RPG, Army of Tentacles, in all its DLC glory! Comes with New Game+ Benefits, the most amazing Cthulhu Dating Sim in the universe, as well as Halloween, SDCC, the Sequel outfits, and the item packs!
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Paper Shakespeare: The Legend of Rainbow Hollow
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Explore a post-apocalyptic world and solve puzzles using that big brain of yours. Discover the secrets of the universe! Be awesome!
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Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY!
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Enter a village full of talking, anthropomorphic animals. Find out their secrets. Make friends.
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Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice
Single-player alternative to The Ghost of Joe Papp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ghost of Joe Papp.
Shakespeare's classic play about intolerance, bigotry, and revenge. Told only as stick figures can.