Single-player games like Shogi
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Shogi, 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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Gomoku Let's Go
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Shogi.
Gomoku: One of the most popular classic board games for all ages. Experience Zen style visuals, various levels of AI, seamless online multiplayer and Endgame challenges!
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5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
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The Conquest of Go
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogi.
Learn and play Go, the classic board game that has been played for thousands of years, and compete in the race to conquer the most land in the in-game world, or compete online against opponents around the real world.
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Hero's Hour
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogi.
A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.
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Dark Chess
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogi.
THIS IS NOT CLASSIC CHESS! Dark Chess is an asymmetric puzzle-strategy game featuring fog of war. Survive a story-driven campaign filled with custom boards, traps, and rule-breaking Kings and Queens of the past. Stealth, calculated risks and outsmarting the unknown are your only ways to win.
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Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogi.
Blood Bowl 2 smashes Warhammer and American football together, in an explosive cocktail of turn-based strategy, humour and brutality, adapted from Games Workshop’s famous boardgame.
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Panzer Corps 2
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogi.
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
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Roll Player - The Board Game
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Shogi.
Create the ultimate Fantasy character by rolling dice, building attributes, purchasing weapons, gaining skills, and discovering character traits in Roll Player, a digital adaptation of a popular board game of dice manipulation and strategy!
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Chess
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Shogi.
Chess: The Grand Strategy Game - Your Pocket Edition for Mastery and Fun!
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Go
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Shogi.
Classic Weiqi, Igo, Baduk, 圍棋 Discover Go Like Never Before! Welcome to a world where strategy and skill meet in the ancient game of Go, now available at your fingertips.
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Chinese Chess - Xiangqi
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Shogi.
Master Xiangqi anytime! Thrilling games, custom boards & challenging AI.
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Lines 98
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Shogi.
Rediscover a Classic: Color Lines Reimagined
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Gomoku
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Shogi.
Dive into Gomoku: The Classic Five in a Row!
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Reversi
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Shogi.
Reversi - A Board Game of Strategy and Tactics!
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Dyno Burst: Bubble Shooter
Single-player alternative to Shogi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Shogi.
Shoot, match, and burst colorful eggs in a dinosaur bubble puzzle.