Single-player games like Shade
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shade, 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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Welcome to Lightford
Single-player alternative to Shade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shade.
Investigate a supernatural conspiracy in a 90s town hiding something far worse than secrets. Travel between 1990 and its ruined 1995 future, photograph anomalies, decode entities, and survive a town that doesn't want you here. Think outside the box. Every problem has more than one solution.
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Yokai Go
Single-player alternative to Shade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shade.
Oops! The master's away and the monsters escaped! Can the rookie who started this mess clean it up? Don't expect expert heroics. You've only got half-baked spells and wobbly kung fu. Turn this fail into your comeback story!
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Signet City
Single-player alternative to Shade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shade.
From the creator of Citizen Sleeper, SIGNET CITY is a first-person fungalpunk RPG. You are a parasite, in a city where strange technologies and radical ideas are taking root. Grow into and through its inhabitants, uncover and change their stories, and witness the terminal season of the signet city.
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Door to Somewhere
Single-player alternative to Shade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shade.
You are Winnie, a reclusive alchemist living on the edge of a dying forest. Years ago, your mentor/older sister vanished, leaving behind cryptic clues and unfinished projects. Now, a letter from her has arrived. The door in the woods beckons, unknown horrors are here and someone must stop them.
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Weird West: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Shade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shade.
Survive and unveil the mysteries of the Weird West through the intertwined destinies of its unusual heroes in an Action RPG from the co-creators of Dishonored and Prey.
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The Occupation
Single-player alternative to Shade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shade.
The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England on Saturday 24th October, 1987.
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Killed by Love 99 Times
Single-player alternative to Shade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shade.
架空世界悬疑、解密类真人影游——玩家将从房间莫名醒来，在和四位女生合租的生活中寻找唯一逃生之路，期间不仅需避开各种死亡陷阱，还要提防无处不在的黄色行刑队。最终解开真相时才发现，自己已身处百万年之后……
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神都不良探 Underdog Detective
Single-player alternative to Shade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shade.
Underdog Detective is a video-based playable, interactive story Set in the reign of Empress Wu Zetian of ancient China, you will play as a slum dweller in the imperial capital of Luoyang and embark on a thrilling yet comedic adventure! Traps and conspiracies, comradery and your unknown origin...