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Single-player games like How Long Is This Dog?

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to How Long Is This Dog?, 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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    Gooboventure — Steam game cover

    Gooboventure

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How Long Is This Dog?.

    A hand-pixeled platformer about a blob of goo. Ledges carry you up, ceilings don't drop you, narrow cracks are doors. Goo is both your health and your ammunition, and it comes from fighting. Find your scattered neighbours before winter.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Moonlight Cow: Guardian of the Night — Steam game cover

    Moonlight Cow: Guardian of the Night

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with How Long Is This Dog?.

    Swap between Luna the cow and Pipkin, the tiny chick who can carry her, in a pixel-art platformer adventure. Fly over danger, move obstacles, and uncover hidden paths as you collect Moon Shards to restore the shattered moon

    ActionAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    UpBRELLA — Steam game cover

    UpBRELLA

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How Long Is This Dog?.

    A witch's adventure with nothing but an umbrella. Upbrella is a puzzle platformer where every trick you discover reopens the world in a new way, wrapped in cozy pixel art and a wordless friendship between a girl and a strange little creature.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pumpkin & Patch — Steam game cover

    Pumpkin & Patch

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with How Long Is This Dog?.

    EmBARK on an all-new adventure with Patch, a one-eyed Shiba Inu dog in search of a new family. Travel with Patch and his new friend, Pumpkin, on this exciting 2D Metroidvania to battle dangerous bosses, explore the Hollowed Lands, and gain fun new abilities!

    2026ActionAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Plungeez — Steam game cover

    Plungeez

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How Long Is This Dog?.

    Explore a non-linear underground world in this puzzle-adventure. Solve intricate environmental challenges, uncover hidden secrets, and navigate a pixel-art labyrinth where every path leads to a new mystery. Can you plunge into the depths and find what lies beneath?

    2026ActionIndieAdventure8.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dark Labyrinth — Steam game cover

    Dark Labyrinth

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How Long Is This Dog?.

    You have stumbled into a world shrouded in darkness, where your body has transformed into that of a strange creature. Using your ability to dispel the darkness, you must explore and learn within this mysterious realm, uncovering the truth of this world while seeking a way to return to your own.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ELEC STRATA — Steam game cover

    ELEC STRATA

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How Long Is This Dog?.

    Play as a white fox who senses and harnesses electric fields in silent industrial ruins. Read field lines, alter circuits, exchange charge with the environment, and use your electrical state to overcome obstacles as you climb through a living world-circuit.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Maxwell's Odyssey — Steam game cover

    Maxwell's Odyssey

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with How Long Is This Dog?.

    Explore the dungeons of an ancient castle in search of a vanished sorceress. Blast through monsters, solve puzzles, and dodge the deadly traps waiting inside.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hex Core — Steam game cover

    Hex Core

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Hex Core is a short, incremental clicker-style defense game where you help PeteOS hold back waves of viruses until you can wipe them out for good. Spend resources to unlock a huge spread of upgrades, new mechanics, weapons, and research.

    2026ActionStrategySimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hex Core Idle — Steam game cover

    Hex Core Idle

    Single-player alternative to How Long Is This Dog? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with How Long Is This Dog?.

    Hex Core Idle is an incremental idle game where you help PeteOS defend the digital world from an ever-growing wave of digital threats. Build up your power, unlock new systems, and discover new ways to push your progression further.

    IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →