Single-player games like May
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to May, 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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Death by Begonia
Single-player alternative to May — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with May.
Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?
- 2
Dead Forest
Single-player alternative to May — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with May.
Laki is an outcast: many beastmen have disappeared because of him. To break this curse, Laki travels to the Dead Forest, a place from which almost no one has ever returned. But what will be the key to the secrets of his fate and the mysteries of the forest?
- 3
Glass Hearts
Single-player alternative to May — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Gripping psychological thriller Yaoi game full of difficult choices. Can you trust your own mind?
- 4
Flowers -Le volume sur printemps-
Single-player alternative to May — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with May.
Suoh Shirahane, a shy girl with a mysterious past, will begin her first year of high school at Saint Angraecum Academy, where she hopes to find a new beginning. She will navigate friendships and mysteries at her new school, and discovers that love can come in many forms.
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Mediterranea Inferno
Single-player alternative to May — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.
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Demonheart: The Ice Demon
Single-player alternative to May — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with May.
Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?
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The Symbiant
Single-player alternative to May — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with May.
The Symbiant is a BL / Yaoi / Gay visual novel about two men, both from vastly different worlds, embracing their sexuality and their newfound romance. It is also a tale of interstellar friendship and being gay in space!
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start;again
Single-player alternative to May — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with May.
A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?