Single-player games like The Garden Pub
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Garden Pub, 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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Garden Pub — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Garden Pub.
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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Euro Truck Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to The Garden Pub — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Garden Pub.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to The Garden Pub — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Garden Pub.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to The Garden Pub — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Garden Pub.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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Europa Universalis IV
Single-player alternative to The Garden Pub — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Garden Pub.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
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Assetto Corsa
Single-player alternative to The Garden Pub — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Garden Pub.
Assetto Corsa v1.16 introduces the new "Laguna Seca" laser-scanned track, 7 new cars among which the eagerly awaited Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio! Check the changelog for further info!
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Single-player alternative to The Garden Pub — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Garden Pub.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
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SPORE™
Single-player alternative to The Garden Pub — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Garden Pub.
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.