Single-player games like Shadows Over Fog City
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shadows Over Fog City, 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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朕不想死！
Single-player alternative to Shadows Over Fog City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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南京大屠杀：拉贝日记-Nanjing Massacre: John Rabe's Diary
Single-player alternative to Shadows Over Fog City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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童谣无忌
Single-player alternative to Shadows Over Fog City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia
Single-player alternative to Shadows Over Fog City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Shrine of Haunts
Single-player alternative to Shadows Over Fog City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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…
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The HeartBeat
Single-player alternative to Shadows Over Fog City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Socialism Simulator
Single-player alternative to Shadows Over Fog City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Tales of the Mirror
Single-player alternative to Shadows Over Fog City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.