Single-player games like Shanghai Summer
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Shanghai Summer, 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
- 1
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
- 2
Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
- 3
夏日的回忆
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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。
- 4
大鹏 - The Roc
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
- 5
月华辉映之刻
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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？
- 6
NOeSIS Ⅱ-人间无常「重置版」
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
- 7
筮灵 SHILING
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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。
- 8
恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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......
- 9
STEINS;GATE
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
- 10
A Space for the Unbound
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
A magical adventure about two high school sweethearts set at the end of their school days - and the end of the world. Explore a crumbling town and help friends face their inner demons, which could be the key to stopping reality itself disintegrating. And don’t forget to pet the cats.
- 11
Souls of Chronos
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shanghai Summer.
The Apocalypse shattered a world in disarray. Facing his impending death, a young boy named Sid crossed paths with Torii, a girl who feeds on the energy of time. In the harbour town of Astella, a mysterious adventure is about to unfold along with the investigation of an unusual crime...
- 12
Songs of Yummy
Single-player alternative to Shanghai Summer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shanghai Summer.
Songs of Yummy is a cozy and idle game. Food is scarce in the army, and you play Jia Xu and Cheng Yu, ordered to prepare for our army supplies. You will use every means to make everything in the world into military food.