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Single-player games like Monsters Mall

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Monsters Mall, 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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    Halloween Store Simulator — Steam game cover

    Halloween Store Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monsters Mall.

    🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arboreal — Steam game cover

    Arboreal

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monsters Mall.

    Answer the call of the Nature Spirits in this peaceful tree growing simulation. Cultivate and cook various fruit species to receive help from the forest inhabitants. Automatize production with ingenious tracks and machines. Find your equilibrium to let life flourish!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factory Life — Steam game cover

    Factory Life

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monsters Mall.

    Factory Life is a factory simulation from a worker’s perspective, where you start alone in a small garage and grow into a modern manufacturing operation inspired by real-world production hubs. Build products, manage your team, and scale up through smart automation.

    IndieSimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kubifaktorium — Steam game cover

    Kubifaktorium

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monsters Mall.

    Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hammerting — Steam game cover

    Hammerting

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monsters Mall.

    Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Idle Colony — Steam game cover

    Idle Colony

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monsters Mall.

    A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Autonauts — Steam game cover

    Autonauts

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monsters Mall.

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    2019IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Common'hood — Steam game cover

    Common'hood

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monsters Mall.

    Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

    2022IndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slime Alchemy — Steam game cover

    Slime Alchemy

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Monsters Mall.

    Slime Alchemy is a relaxing puzzle game where you must place pieces in specific locations on a hexagonal grid.

    CasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ghost Puncher — Steam game cover

    Ghost Puncher

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monsters Mall.

    This is a beat'em up with influences from Guardian Heroes and Little Fighters 2, 3D hand-drawn environments, with anime-style characters and music composed exclusively for the game.

    2022ActionIndieRPG1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Just Shoot: Slimes — Steam game cover

    Just Shoot: Slimes

    Single-player alternative to Monsters Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monsters Mall.

    A fps/action roguelike 2d game with cool gameplay, just enter and just shot!

    2022ActionIndie1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →