Single-player games like Lingering Fragrance
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Lingering Fragrance, 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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Dream Ending
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lingering Fragrance.
This is a small tale from the end. The leftovers of mankind are destined to perish as the Arks break orbit. Suddenly, however, she's making me ask her out, an invitation to face the apocalypse together... a short but exquisite visual novel, "Dream Ending" is humanity's last love story.
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Our End of the World
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lingering Fragrance.
Filled with puzzles, the story between she and me at the end of the world. English Subtitle Released on 2018/11/22!
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The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lingering Fragrance.
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
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Gazing from beyond
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lingering Fragrance.
This is a galgame about college life, where you'll pursuit the love of your life. You'll surely experience hardship, triumph, happiness, sadness, maybe even trauma. Only time can heal all.
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HOPE LEFT ME
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Lingering Fragrance.
You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.
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Love Ribbon
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Lingering Fragrance.
"Love Ribbon" is a yuri (girl x girl) visual novel about forbidden love between two sisters.
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Your Smile Beyond Twilight:黄昏下的月台上
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lingering Fragrance.
A story about forced smiles, coming to terms with the past, and love—but most of all, redemption.
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The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lingering Fragrance.
Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi join forces for the first time to deliver the ULTIMATE adventure game! 15 students are tasked with defending a school from grotesque monsters for 100 days. Can they make it to the end? And will they survive long enough to uncover the truth?
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Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
Single-player alternative to Lingering Fragrance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lingering Fragrance.
Umineko When They Cry is the 2nd series of Sound Novel released by 07th Expansion. The steam version features renewed character sprites which is swappable from the classic art.