Single-player games like The Waters Above: Prelude
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Waters Above: Prelude, 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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Eternal Hour: Golden Hour
Single-player alternative to The Waters Above: Prelude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Waters Above: Prelude.
Play through a timeless adventure as Yasu or Rin Fujimoto and discover the origins of Eternal Hour! Eternal Hour: Golden Hour is a fun, emotional, and story-driven Visual Novel that takes place before the events of Eternal Hour.
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Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto
Single-player alternative to The Waters Above: Prelude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Waters Above: Prelude.
“Len, you are going to abandon this town... and die—today” Since her reunion with Shinonome, Len's life is thrust into an all new “reality,” and the curtain which hid the “truth” of this new world is been lifted.
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Please Be Happy
Single-player alternative to The Waters Above: Prelude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Waters Above: Prelude.
A comfy yuri VN about the foxgirl Miho and her quest to find the person who's most important to her. This emotional visual novel features two different heroines to choose from, and a story that will make you both laugh and cry!
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UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~
Single-player alternative to The Waters Above: Prelude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Waters Above: Prelude.
This is a story about finding love to overwrite the feelings for the one they held dearest. A girls love visual novel about summer, love and adolescence.
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Highway Blossoms
Single-player alternative to The Waters Above: Prelude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Waters Above: Prelude.
A yuri visual novel about Amber, a girl who's trying her best to be alone on the road, until she stumbles upon a young hitchhiker and the journal of a prospector from long ago. Fully voiced in English.
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Sakura Fantasy
Single-player alternative to The Waters Above: Prelude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Waters Above: Prelude.
The new visual novel from the makers of Sakura Spirit and Sakura Angels. Sakura Fantasy Chapter 1 is an exciting visual novel fantasy adventure where you decide the development of the story by the choices you make. It is the tale of an aspiring female protagonist who wishes to aim to become a knight.
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Blossoms Bloom Brightest
Single-player alternative to The Waters Above: Prelude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Waters Above: Prelude.
A sci-fi, yuri visual novel with a dollop of mystery.
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Once on a windswept night
Single-player alternative to The Waters Above: Prelude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Waters Above: Prelude.
A metafictional yuri visual novel about a traveller who runs across two cute nuns in an abandoned church.