Single-player games like Perceptions of the Dead
Below are 12 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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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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Corpse Party
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
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Dread Weight
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.
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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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Who Is Mike - A Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Perceptions of the Dead.
You wake up with an aching head and the world out of focus. In front of you is a man accusing you of being “fake”. He looks exactly like you, down to the last scar and pimple, has the same memories, the same voice and the same personality. But who is lying and who is telling the truth? Who is fake and who is real?
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Sylvio
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Sylvio is a psychological horror game set in a tranquil, disturbing atmosphere. Help ghost recorder Juliette Waters face an evil curse and a wicked family cult with her microphone and the voices of the dead.
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Tokyo Dark
Single-player alternative to Perceptions of the Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.
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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