Single-player games like Professional Thief
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Professional Thief, 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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Thief Simulator
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Objects in Space
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
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Drug Dealer Simulator
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW
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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Dude Simulator
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Dude Simulator is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.
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Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
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Party Hard 2
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!
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Dude Simulator 3
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Dude Simulator 3 is an open world sandbox game. It is your friend’s birthday tomorrow. You have already bought him a present, now you only have to give it to him. But your friends lives in another city, quite far from you.
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Dude Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Dude Simulator 2 is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.
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Great Toilet Simulator
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Great Toilet Simulator is a first-person indie horror telling you the story of a man who has his car broken on his way home, in the middle of a thick forest. What makes the situation even worse is that the main character is really in need of a toilet.
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Fat Prisoner Simulator
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Professional Thief.
Fat Prisoner Simulator - a soccer simulator where you play the role of a prisoner. The jail managers have noticed that some prisoners, who really like to eat a lot, can hardly go through the doors, including those of their cells. So they decided to arrange a soccer game between them.
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Dude Simulator 4
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Dude Simulator 4 – a first-person open-world sandbox game with a plot. Some new adventures are awaiting the dude. The main character of the game decides to meet a girl through a mobile dating app, but during a date someone attacks him.
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Francisca
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Professional Thief.
Today my parents went to Mexico for a week, and I’m gonna have to spend seven days alone in our new house.
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Soccer Player Simulator
Single-player alternative to Professional Thief — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Professional Thief.
Soccer Player Simulator – a physics-based soccer simulator. The main feature of the game is the unpredictable behavior of the players on the pitch.