Games like A Summer with the Shiba Inu
If A Summer with the Shiba Inu is your kind of game, the closest matches are CITADEL, Vessels and Head AS Code — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and mysterious. 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 A Summer with the Shiba Inu: Syd the Shiba Inu quits her job in Canine-da, and goes to fight other dogs on an Island. What could go wrong? Your choices matter - there are multiple drastic ways to change the fate of Shiba Island, with 10+ variants depending on how you treat the dogs you meet along the way.
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Steam players who put hours into A Summer with the Shiba Inu also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Vessels
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Second-strongest match for A Summer with the Shiba Inu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
Head AS Code
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Third-strongest match for A Summer with the Shiba Inu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
The first entry of the Abime Series. Eight captives must cooperate or compete to escape an underground subway under the manipulation of a dangerous psychopath. Can you really trust anyone? What about yourself? And what is the meaning of a good ending? Is reaching one even possible?
The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for A Summer with the Shiba Inu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...
Eliza
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Ranked #5 for A Summer with the Shiba Inu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for A Summer with the Shiba Inu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Ranked #7 for A Summer with the Shiba Inu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
The Forgotten City
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Ranked #8 for A Summer with the Shiba Inu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
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The Hunger: Games Ensemble
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Reviewers of A Summer with the Shiba Inu cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
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Hatoful Boyfriend
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a dark mood with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Reviewers of A Summer with the Shiba Inu cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Reviewers of A Summer with the Shiba Inu cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Ready Player One: OASIS beta
WHY THIS
Reviewers of A Summer with the Shiba Inu cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
The Ready Player One: OASIS beta is the 2018 beta phase of the immersive virtual universe from the film, Ready Player One. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone—the only limits of reality are your own imagination.
Player One
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Reviewers of A Summer with the Shiba Inu cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
3D Game, Thirdperson Platformer
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Summer with the Shiba Inu at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under A Summer with the Shiba Inu on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~44% under A Summer with the Shiba Inu on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under A Summer with the Shiba Inu on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~44% under A Summer with the Shiba Inu on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under A Summer with the Shiba Inu on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Summer with the Shiba Inu on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under A Summer with the Shiba Inu on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under A Summer with the Shiba Inu on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Frequently asked about A Summer with the Shiba Inu
- How much does A Summer with the Shiba Inu cost?
- A Summer with the Shiba Inu is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Summer with the Shiba Inu?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Summer with the Shiba Inu are CITADEL, Vessels, Head AS Code.
- Who developed A Summer with the Shiba Inu?
- A Summer with the Shiba Inu was developed by Quill Game Studios.
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