Single-player games like Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice, 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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Assassin at Crimson Keep
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
Assassin at Crimson Keep is a short, point and click visual novel set in a dark, quasi-fantasy world. After a botched assassination attempt, you pursue the King into his lair known as the Crimson Keep. Your small choices can have great consequences, either for good or for evil.
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Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
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A Line Held Tight
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.
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The Crimson Call
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, two young men set out on a journey to find The Great Appearance which manifests itself inside mankind's mind.
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Tom the postgirl
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
Join Tom, the village’s new postgirl, and get to know the locals, perhaps a little too well. Her method, although controversial, is highly effective: intense, obsessive stalking.
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The Wishing Stone
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
A visual novel and point-and-click puzzle adventure game with challenging puzzles, a touching story, and multiple endings. In a world that deviates from reality, it's up to you to discover the truth and Ailsa's forgotten memory. Her fate is in your hands!
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Make your choices carefully, as your decisions determine how many clues you uncover before the detective, the final player character, questions you. Will your protagonists know enough to catch the murderer?
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Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
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 Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
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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The Ghost of Joe Papp
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
Welcome to Joe Papp, Nevada. A theater town where local legends spring to life and nobody knows quite what to do with their lives.
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Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date?
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
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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Inexplicable Geeks: Dawn of Just Us
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
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: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition
Single-player alternative to Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
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 Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
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 Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice.
Enter a village full of talking, anthropomorphic animals. Find out their secrets. Make friends.