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Single-player games like Shu's Misfortune

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Shu's Misfortune, 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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    The Disguiser Of Fate — Steam game cover

    The Disguiser Of Fate

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    This is a world at the brink of destruction, but he comes from a destroyed world. Bearing the burden of changing the fate of this world and facing everything before him, especially the eminent destruction, what can he do, and what price will he pay?

    2019StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    To The Capital 2 — Steam game cover

    To The Capital 2

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    To The Capital 2 is a game in the genre jRPG with classic turn-based battles in which you have to travel together with four heroes visiting a lot of cities, dungeons, mysterious places and fight with various bosses.

    2019IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heaven's Glaive — Steam game cover

    Heaven's Glaive

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    Lead the members of Squad 56 across the Island of Principium as they uncover the secrets of their forebearers. Explore a vast island filled with fantastical foes, ruins, quests, and experience the story you choose. Each Protagonist brings a different viewpoint and story in this turn based RPG.

    IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Last Word — Steam game cover

    Last Word

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    In a society where having the last word means having power over others, a small party is disrupted by a gentleman who politely issues orders via one-way intercom.

    2015IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    OFF — Steam game cover

    OFF

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    “I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.

    2025RPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass — Steam game cover

    Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    One day, Jimmy looked inside.

    2018IndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bahamut2-dragon's bride — Steam game cover

    Bahamut2-dragon's bride

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    When Clear sealed Bahamut again, he grew up for the second time and still aspires to become an adventurer. What awaits him is a more magnificent adventure story, and everyone is welcome to experience it.

    2021RPG2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Artifact Adventure — Steam game cover

    Artifact Adventure

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    The horribly toxic Swamp King has risen once again! Gather your party and set out on an open world, retro-styled, RPG adventure. Powerful mystical artifacts are scattered about the world, each able to grant you new powers. Which will you choose? What is your destiny?

    2015IndieRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Virgo Versus The Zodiac — Steam game cover

    Virgo Versus The Zodiac

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    Dethrone the Zodiacs, revive the Golden Age and purge the Heretics that swarm the galaxy as Virgo, the queen of Purity, in this unforgiving timed actions turn-based JRPG.

    2019IndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action — Steam game cover

    Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    In a silent world where music is outlawed, play as a singer to shatter the strings of fate and sing the melody of freedom in this unforgiving Turn Based Rhythm JRPG.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Osteoblasts — Steam game cover

    Osteoblasts

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    Osteoblasts is a dungeon crawler skeletal RPG about skeletons, by skeletons and for skeletons. If you are not undead leave this page immediately else you'll face the law of Skulls and Bones.

    2021IndieRPG7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Necromorphosis — Steam game cover

    Necromorphosis

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    In this unliving hell, become the bullet heaven. Gather the bones of fallen foes and morph into the ultimate skeleton to claim your throne of skulls as King of the Undead, if you can survive the Necromorphosis.

    2024ActionIndieEarly Access4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ginger's Letter to Santa — Steam game cover

    Ginger's Letter to Santa

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shu's Misfortune.

    "This is it! This year I will cook the best roast Christmas dinner the Zodiacs has ever seen! They will all scream for more and then nobody will try to eat me, no more no more!" Join Ginger, Sullyvan and the Gonk on this RPG Christmas Adventure as they deliver their letters to Santa's Factory!

    2024IndieAdventureRPG3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bathory - Heritage of Blood — Steam game cover

    Bathory - Heritage of Blood

    Single-player alternative to Shu's Misfortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Play as Ursula Bathory, the vampire Princess, awakened from a centuries long slumber to claim her throne of blood in this Vampire Soulsvania inspired by Castlevania, Nosferatu and gothic victorian literature classics.

    2027ActionSingle-playerSimilar games →