Single-player games like A Summer with the Shiba Inu
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to A Summer with the Shiba Inu, 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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CITADEL
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
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Vessels
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Head AS Code
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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Eliza
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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).
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The Forgotten City
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
A Collection Of Hilarious VR Games!
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Hatoful Boyfriend
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Ready Player One: OASIS beta
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Player One
Single-player alternative to A Summer with the Shiba Inu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Summer with the Shiba Inu.
3D Game, Thirdperson Platformer