Single-player games like Startup Valley Adventure
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Startup Valley Adventure, 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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Afterparty
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
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Dispatch
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
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Negative Nancy
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Negative Nancy is a choose your “no” adventure for people who have had enough. An interactive sitcom where you can only say “no” (or nothing at all). Your choices control the story.
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Idol Manager
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Startup Valley Adventure.
Idol Manager is a business sim about conquering the entertainment industry using any means you deem necessary.
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Not For Broadcast
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
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VIDEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
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Sultan's Game
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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Loco Parentis / 孤女咒怨
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Surreal survival horror, where you alone or with a friend have to solve puzzles and try to survive in the endless entrance among the monsters
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Protocol
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
By signing below, you agree to follow the Protocol. Protocol is a program of strict rules created to make first contact with an alien life form that got shot down in the Arctic Circle.
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Noch
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Go alone (or with a friend) to find the girl who destroyed the world. An ominous surreal first-person adventure full of dangerous monsters and secrets of the deceased world
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Aliens In The Yard
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Startup Valley Adventure.
The aliens have decided to steal the Earth's most precious artifacts: your backyard junk. Defend your backyard with fireworks!
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Protocol VR
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
By signing below, you agree to follow the Protocol. Protocol is a program of strict rules created to make first contact with an alien life form that got shot down in the Arctic Circle.