Single-player games like PacketStorm
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to PacketStorm, 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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A Game About Creating The Universe
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with PacketStorm.
An idler game where you get to build up the universe from scratch. You are a part of an advanced space civilization that builds universes.
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Nodebuster
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
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CompactO - Idle Game
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
CompactO is an addicting idle game where you create colorful squares on a plane. Dominate the 3D Realm and infuse your planes into complex shapes to buy tons of upgrades!
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Loot Loop
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Build a party of heroes and send them into dungeons in this short incremental RPG. Fight monsters, collect loot, and unlock upgrades. Fast runs, deep skill tree, zero stress.
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Feudal Fantasy Incremental
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.
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Max Manos
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Max Manos is an incremental destruction game where you play as a powerful hand, known as Max Manos, eliminating shapes. Chain explosive reactions, collect shards, and upgrade your abilities to destroy shapes even faster.
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Gamblers Table
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...
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Piñata Go Boom
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
A small incremental game about smashing piñatas, collecting toys, and climbing the corporate ladder as you unlock a vast upgrade tree.
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Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.
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Pandemic: The Board Game
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Humanity is on the brink of extinction. As members of an elite disease control team, you’re the only thing standing in the way of the four deadly diseases spreading across the world.
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Pandemic Panic!
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with PacketStorm.
We're in lockdown and you're our only hope! Grab your blaster, ready the cure and prepare to face the virus head on in this frantic, wacky and wild hospital. Don't be fooled, this is a task for only the best out there. Think you have what it takes?
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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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Ampu-Tea
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with PacketStorm.
The surgeon-simulator inspired Tea-making game is now available on Steam! Using the latest KS-001 Robo-Arm, you must practise making various types of tea.
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Gnomancer
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with PacketStorm.
DjArcas' Twin Stick Shooter for up to 4 players - Pikmin meets Gauntlet. Advance your character, get epic loot, raise a gnome army!
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Steam Heroes
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with PacketStorm.
Help three brave adventurers on their quest to stop the diabolical Baron Von Smog’s plot to conquer Steam Land. However, there is an army of evil minions that stand in your way. Challenge yourself in this new puzzle strategy game; includes 12 action-packed stages, a full soundtrack, competitive online play, all in stunning 720p HD...
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ADAPTR
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Build physics-based vehicles from a range of modular blocks, solve puzzles to move down from orbit, across the Earth's surface and deep into the lost labs. Locate missing robots, explore secret areas and unlock the secrets of a long-lost civilisation.
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Storm Area 51: September 20th 2019
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with PacketStorm.
Survive the epic raid on Area 51 and rescue the aliens from the military compound using classic stealth mechanics and cover.
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FortressCraft : Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with PacketStorm.
FortressCraft : Chapter 1 Anniversary Edition is the PC-update to the world's first and best Creative-focussed Voxel block builder.
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Mothership Forever
Single-player alternative to PacketStorm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PacketStorm.
Fight against an ever-evolving threat in this skill-based twinstick shooter 14 years in the making.