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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WTF Is Wrong With You?
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Have you ever wondered WTF Is Wrong With You? Well, so have we... Let's find out together, shall we?
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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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Deathpuddle: Choose Violence?
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Hey. I’m Deathpuddle. Ex-con, currently incarcerated. Just trying to make it to my first job without getting tackled by SWAT or deported to Sudan again. It’s a cinematic, choice-driven meltdown. Hit play, make bad choices, and help me ruin my life in glorious HD. If I go down, you're coming with me.
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Survivor Dieland
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
You're gonna get yourself killed being out here all by your lonesome... There's monsters on this island! Besides, It's not always the beasts you should be afraid of... Beasts are easy to predict. They just want to kill and eat you. Humans are much harder... They'll pretend to be your friend first...
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Startup Valley Adventure.
Can you find love at the nerdiest convention ever? "Monster Con" goes back to the multiplayer dating sim formula: go through absurd and funny situations as you find love among six sexy monsters! Who will you romance? The mimic who cosplays? The idol clown? Or the eldritch cutie? (There's also Liam)
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Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Startup Valley Adventure.
Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)
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Kindergarten 3
Single-player alternative to Startup Valley Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Startup Valley Adventure.
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
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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.