Games like Short Stories
If Short Stories is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mall Heist, El Hijo - A Wild West Tale and Timelie — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Short Stories: Determined to become the greatest thief of all time, Foxy decides to start his life of crime and theft. And what would be the quickest way to start your new life goal? Stealing chickens of course!
Players who liked Short Stories also play
Steam players who put hours into Short Stories 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.
Mall Heist
WHY THIS
Top pick for Short Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Short Stories.
Sneak, hack, and confront guards as a security tester in 'Mall Heist.' Utilize your surroundings to your advantage! From bananas in the supermarket to boots in the clothing store, everything becomes a tool for your heist!
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Short Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Short Stories.
El Hijo is an exciting spaghetti-western stealth game, in which you guide a 6-year-old boy on his quest to find his mother.
Timelie
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Short Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Short Stories.
Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.
Moss
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Short Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories.
Moss is an action-adventure puzzle game from Polyarc tailor-made for the VR platform. It combines classic components of a great game—compelling characters, gripping combat, and captivating world exploration—with the exciting opportunities of VR.
Semblance
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Short Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories.
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Short Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Short Stories.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
Mini Ninjas
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Short Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Short Stories.
Mini Ninjas is a game that combines furious action with stealth and exploration for an experience that appeals to a wide audience across age groups and preferences. It’s an action-adventure with a strong focus on allowing the player freedom to explore the world and has the depth to allow for very varied gameplay and approaches to getting...
The Eternal Cylinder
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Short Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Short Stories.
Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Short Stories at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Short Stories on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Short Stories on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Short Stories.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Short Stories on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Short Stories.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Short Stories on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Short Stories.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Short Stories on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Short Stories on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Short Stories.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Short Stories on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
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 Short Stories.
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 Action and Adventure with Short Stories.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Short Stories.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Short Stories.
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 Short Stories.
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 Action and Indie with Short Stories.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Timelie
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Short Stories.
Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.
Semblance
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Short Stories.
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
Mini Ninjas
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Short Stories.
Mini Ninjas is a game that combines furious action with stealth and exploration for an experience that appeals to a wide audience across age groups and preferences. It’s an action-adventure with a strong focus on allowing the player freedom to explore the world and has the depth to allow for very varied gameplay and approaches to getting...
Frequently asked about Short Stories
- How much does Short Stories cost?
- Short Stories is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Short Stories?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Short Stories are Mall Heist, El Hijo - A Wild West Tale, Timelie.
- Who developed Short Stories?
- Short Stories was developed by One Guy Productions.
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 Short Stories.
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