Single-player games like ShelfLife: Art School Detective
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to ShelfLife: Art School Detective, 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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PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
Single-player alternative to ShelfLife: Art School Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
Something's hiding in the cassette. Rearrange the words of your enemies to investigate a small-town conspiracy in this mystery puzzle game.
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To Find A Home
Single-player alternative to ShelfLife: Art School Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? Sharing a haunted house with a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost and a fellow witch with a same problem.
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The Mysterious Thief; Forget Me Not
Single-player alternative to ShelfLife: Art School Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
A story-rich, girl's love visual novel about the titular phantom thief, Forget Me Not, and the famous ballet troupe that visits the city with its precious jewel and a certain ballerina that they fall for.
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Life is Strange: Reunion
Single-player alternative to ShelfLife: Art School Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
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Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
Single-player alternative to ShelfLife: Art School Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!
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Dahlia View
Single-player alternative to ShelfLife: Art School Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
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Afterlove EP
Single-player alternative to ShelfLife: Art School Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own way forward. Step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to ShelfLife: Art School Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.