Games like Shanghai Summer
If Shanghai Summer is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty, Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring and 夏日的回忆 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Shanghai Summer: Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Players who liked Shanghai Summer also play
Steam players who put hours into Shanghai Summer also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shanghai Summer.
Top pick for Shanghai Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
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.
Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shanghai Summer.
Second-strongest match for Shanghai Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?
夏日的回忆
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shanghai Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Shanghai Summer.
这是一款传统的AVG的文字游戏！讲述的是……青春……校园……您的选择会影响主人公命运，引领这他走若干不同的结局……没有暴力，也没有色情。这关于……爱……友情……亲情的故事！还有……疑惑……不解……和全体通过后的一丝丝的奇怪的感觉。
大鹏 - The Roc
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shanghai Summer.
Ranked #4 for Shanghai Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
Due to work, Wu Shengyou was forced to leave home for high school in a big city. The sensitive, introverted poet felt out of place with classmates.As they grew closer, he seemed her only friend, yet appeared to completely misunderstand her inner thoughts...
月华辉映之刻
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shanghai Summer.
Ranked #5 for Shanghai Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
——这是由阴阳两面的夹缝中，诞生的深刻羁绊。世人只言开封繁华，歌舞升平，却难以看到那，被隐藏起来的黑暗背面。粉饰的美好，残酷的真相。生者的思念，亡者的祝福。所以，你要止步当前，还是深究一切？
NOeSIS Ⅱ-人间无常「重置版」
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shanghai Summer.
Ranked #6 for Shanghai Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Shanghai Summer.
In order to pay off the loan, the protagonist and childhood sweetheart work together to clean up the lonely death. After meeting the girl who claims to be the incarnation of the firefly, the protagonist quietly changes.
筮灵 SHILING
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shanghai Summer.
Ranked #7 for Shanghai Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
国产本土新怪谈恐怖游戏——幽魂社前社长在直播中突然失踪，销声匿迹数月后发来诡异消息，将你引入离奇的规则世界。走不出的吞人楼栋、满员即死的午夜巴士、地图上不存在的村庄，还有勾魂剧院、吃人公司……世界的“暗面”等待探索，怪谲的谜题等待揭露。
恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shanghai Summer.
Ranked #8 for Shanghai Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
《恋爱绮谭~不存在的真相~》是一款文字冒险游戏。 初到江城的顾唯，意外成为了一起社会新闻的主人公。凶险的都市中，他需要在混乱的舆论和虚假的情报中找到唯一的真相，也需要在两名各有千秋的少女间完成自我的抉择。秋去冬来，覆盖城市的厚厚积雪下，究竟掩藏着什么样的秘密......
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shanghai Summer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Shanghai Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Shanghai Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Shanghai Summer.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Shanghai Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Shanghai Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Shanghai Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Shanghai Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Shanghai Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Shanghai Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Shanghai Summer
- Does Shanghai Summer run on Steam Deck?
- Shanghai Summer is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Shanghai Summer cost?
- Shanghai Summer is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shanghai Summer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shanghai Summer are The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty, Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring, 夏日的回忆.
- Who developed Shanghai Summer?
- Shanghai Summer was developed by FUTU Studio and published by Astrolabe Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Shanghai Summer.
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