Games like Shadows Over Fog City
If Shadows Over Fog City is your kind of game, the closest matches are 朕不想死！, 南京大屠杀：拉贝日记-Nanjing Massacre: John Rabe's Diary and 童谣无忌 — 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 Shadows Over Fog City: Shadows Over the Fog City is a Republican-era spy visual novel. As an undercover clerk inside an enemy puppet bureau, hide behind files and seals, mislead your enemies, pass intelligence, and survive audits, blame games, and purges. One mistake means death—but you have no choice.
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朕不想死！
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Top pick for Shadows Over Fog City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
Late Ming collapse—you carry a ruler’s secret in a world of blades and famine. Card combat drives battles and plot branches; AI persuasion challenges key figures, and skill cards help you win. Minigames change what comes next. Raise attributes and destiny, explore for events, items.
南京大屠杀：拉贝日记-Nanjing Massacre: John Rabe's Diary
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Second-strongest match for Shadows Over Fog City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
This text game is based on John Rabe's diaries. Play as Rabe in the desperate Nanking Safety Zone. Your choices shape blood-stained diary entries. Decide refugees' survival under extreme resource scarcity. Help the younger generation re-examine this heavy history through immersive narrative.
童谣无忌
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shadows Over Fog City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
In 1998, journalist Gu Yao comes to the mountain village of Hongluo after an anonymous letter. A nursery rhyme points to a chain of old murders. Slowly reveal the truth of the case from back then.
The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia
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Ranked #4 for Shadows Over Fog City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.
Shrine of Haunts
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Ranked #5 for Shadows Over Fog City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
In the summer of 1990, you return to the secluded mountain village of Iwao as your grandfather falls critically ill. The village shrine is said to seal the yokai "Tsuchigumo." As the "Mushi Okuri Festival" nears, its ritual flames may awaken a thousand-year-old curse…
IndieSteam ↗The HeartBeat
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Ranked #6 for Shadows Over Fog City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
The Heartbeat is a lightweight political simulation game that incorporates rhythmic, text-oriented options. All the player has to do in the game is keep himself and the city alive as much as possible.
Socialism Simulator
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Ranked #7 for Shadows Over Fog City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country. The young socialist state proudly raises its flags, its eyes fixed on a distant, bright future.
Tales of the Mirror
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Ranked #8 for Shadows Over Fog City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
Tales of the Mirror is a landscape-mode visual novel game created by Cotton Games. As a player, you solve a series of mysteries in the mid and late Ming Dynasty, in the south of Yangtze River.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadows Over Fog City.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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- What games are most similar to Shadows Over Fog City?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadows Over Fog City are 朕不想死！, 南京大屠杀：拉贝日记-Nanjing Massacre: John Rabe's Diary, 童谣无忌.
- Who developed Shadows Over Fog City?
- Shadows Over Fog City was developed by None Studio.
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