Single-player games like Burial of Shortcake
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Burial of Shortcake, 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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MATCH APP!
Single-player alternative to Burial of Shortcake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Burial of Shortcake.
MATCH APP! is a visual novel game based on a Japanese dating app. Players take on the role of the protagonist and experience a story of new encounters through the dating app.
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YouthSignal-ユースシグナル
Single-player alternative to Burial of Shortcake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Burial of Shortcake.
--Is that determination really your own will? An adolescent perversion adventure presented by creators who all started their challenges from scratch! This game will be a simple text adventure.
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Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
Single-player alternative to Burial of Shortcake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Burial of Shortcake.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
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Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Single-player alternative to Burial of Shortcake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Burial of Shortcake.
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Burial of Shortcake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Burial of Shortcake.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to Burial of Shortcake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Burial of Shortcake.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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IMMORTALITY
Single-player alternative to Burial of Shortcake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Burial of Shortcake.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Burial of Shortcake — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Burial of Shortcake.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.