Single-player games like Perceptions of the Dead
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Perceptions of the Dead, 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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Scarlet Hollow — Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
The free-to-play first episode of a horror-mystery game with dark humor and hand-drawn art by Black Tabby Games. Note — we are retiring this store page. While the build here is still up-to-date, please download the DEMO from the main Scarlet Hollow store page. Thank you and have fun!
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CORPSE FACTORY
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
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The Falconers: Moonlight
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
The Falconers: Moonlight is a supernatural thriller visual novel set in the 19th Century West Coast of New Zealand. Falconer, Cassandra Winter, is on her first solo mission. Can she save the people of Moonlight from their plight? Or will she disappear into the mist like so many others before her?
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Lake of Voices
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Perceptions of the Dead.
A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where gruesome monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.
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TELEFORUM
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?
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Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
From Dischan Media, creators of the highly acclaimed Juniper's Knot, comes Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.Dysfunctional Systems is a visual novel series featuring Winter Harrison, a student mediator from a utopian world. Learning to Manage Chaos is the first entry in the series.What is a mediator?
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The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
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?
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The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
"A Requiem for Innocence" is a companion to the visual novel "The House in Fata Morgana." It tells the tale of a young man dragged down by his ambitions and a girl both worshiped as a saint and maligned as a witch. For them, there is no happily ever after.
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Brilliant Shadows - Part One of the Book of Gray Magic
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Perceptions of the Dead.
Brilliant Shadows is a visual novel that follows the story of Veronica Ashmar, a new graduate of the Mountain and a necromancer. Tradition dictates that upon graduation, necromancers and paladins are to perform the pairing ritual.
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Embers of Magic
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Embers of Magic is a short, adventure visual novel that tells the story of Liana the witch. She takes an airship down to the surface of the dangerous and corrupt earth beneath her flying city home.
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Pale Spectrum - Part Two of the Book of Gray Magic
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
The Ryuusian Royal Cabal thought that the discovery and research of five new forms of magic would be the greatest undertaking of their lives. Unfortunately, they drastically underestimated the difficulties of love, mental health, family, and the occasional mad demigod.
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Perceptions of the Dead 2
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Three months ago, Jill learned ghosts are real. Now she has to save the only Acolyte who can help her live in a world of the dead.
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Stars and Snowdrops
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Spend a day in a rainy castle and befriend, or fall for, a non-binary dragon