Single-player games like Shrinking Pains
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shrinking Pains, 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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Imagine Lifetimes
Single-player alternative to Shrinking Pains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shrinking Pains.
Satirical, short and simple point-and-click "simulation" game about the meaninglessness of life.
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Human Delusion
Single-player alternative to Shrinking Pains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shrinking Pains.
A transformation from being restrained inside the human experience to being free and present. Human Delusion is an exploration of one’s emotions, consciousness, mind and their perception of reality. Are you ready to choose true Freedom?
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Blind Man's Sun
Single-player alternative to Shrinking Pains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shrinking Pains.
A blind guy with a ghost in his brain tries to save a cursed girl. Naturally, it all goes to hell. A visual novel packed with dark humor, gritty mysticism, violence, and characters who know exactly who’s watching them.
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Truth: Disorder II
Single-player alternative to Shrinking Pains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shrinking Pains.
Continuation of the favorite of many visual novels Truth: Disorder. This time you will feel yourself in the role of the captain of the spacecraft of the future and plunge into computer simulations.
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Non-Linear Text Quests
Single-player alternative to Shrinking Pains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shrinking Pains.
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
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M City
Single-player alternative to Shrinking Pains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shrinking Pains.
Crazy and strange town. Mysterious events. A hero with multiple personality disorder. Laughter, tears and madness!
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Enigma Code: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Shrinking Pains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shrinking Pains.
"Enigma Code: Prologue" - a small science fiction game where you act as an artificial intelligence. Help CEO uncover the mystery of catastrophic failure in the most protected part of the virtual environment.
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Bloody Service
Single-player alternative to Shrinking Pains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shrinking Pains.
The conjoined twins were bullied and humiliated... Now justice will be served! BLOODY SERVICE is a dark, gory and violent coming-of-age slasher FMV Visual Novel with gruesome deaths and clever one-liners related to tennis. Game, set, machete!