Single-player games like My Heart Grows Fonder
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to My Heart Grows Fonder, 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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Sable's Grimoire: A Dragon's Treasure
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
Sleeping with a possessive half-dragon becomes the least of Sable's worries as he tries to stay one step ahead of his domineering mother-in-law.
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Sable's Grimoire: Man And Elf
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
Elves' secrets run as deep as their grudges, and Sable is caught right in the middle of an old, escalating feud between a family of powerful elves.
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Tomboys Need Love Too!
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
Tomboys Need Love Too is a visual novel about two childhood friends who are starting to see one another as members of the opposite sex.
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Violet rE:-The Final reExistence-
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
毫无意义的永生,轮回尽头的重逢,当生命不再是约束灵魂的容器时,请告诉我: 什么才是『永恒』。
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If My Heart Had Wings -Flight Diary-
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with My Heart Grows Fonder.
While If My Heart Had Wings -Flight Diary- is technically a fan disc for If My Heart Had Wings, it includes six stories - including the prologue and epilogue to the main story - and acts as a sort of sequel to the original.
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Sunrider Academy
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
You are Kayto Shields, an ordinary man thrown into an extraordinary adventure. Control Kayto's day to day life as well as his responsibilities as club manager in this stat management sim.
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Gaokao.Love.100Days
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
Getting a girl-friend before National College Entrance Exam, I know it's crazy, but from today, we will face everything together.
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Ascendant Hearts
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with My Heart Grows Fonder.
A visual novel where you wake up in a strange new world before going on a real-life RPG adventure with three wacky party members.
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Sickness
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
Sickness is a visual novel centering around Suoh Tesla, an amoral high school student whose life is rapidly deteriorating. Following the deaths of his parents, a brief stay in the hospital, and the emergence of his “Sickness”, his daily life quickly devolves from carefree school days to a life of crime.
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Sable's Grimoire
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
Sable's Grimoire is a visual novel featuring monster girls in a magic academy setting. Play as Sable, an aspiring magic researcher, as he get sucked into the daily lives and troubles of his demi-human classmates.
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Wander No More
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
Wander No More is a Kinetic Novel (visual novel without choices) which centers around the life of renowned samurai Kouichirou Nabatame, and Chiyo, a young village girl. Wander No More tells the story of how these two met, became a family, and attempted to restore their lives to what they once were.
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Humanity Must Perish
Single-player alternative to My Heart Grows Fonder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Heart Grows Fonder.
Humanity Must Perish is a short, comedic visual novel in which the fate of humanity is placed in the hands of a witty, pessimistic android.