Single-player games like Short Stories
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Short Stories, 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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Mall Heist
Single-player alternative to Short Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Single-player alternative to Short Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Timelie
Single-player alternative to Short Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Moss
Single-player alternative to Short Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Semblance
Single-player alternative to Short Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Single-player alternative to Short Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Mini Ninjas
Single-player alternative to Short Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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The Eternal Cylinder
Single-player alternative to Short Stories — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.