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Single-player games like Pilfer

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Pilfer, 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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    Refund Me If You Can — Steam game cover

    Refund Me If You Can

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    One maze, one monster tracking you down, will you have the courage and dexterity to escape this nightmare in less than two hours ?

    2022ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Amnesia: The Dark Descent — Steam game cover

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

    2010ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    We Happy Few — Steam game cover

    We Happy Few

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Church in the Darkness ™ — Steam game cover

    The Church in the Darkness ™

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    The Church in the Darkness is an action/stealth game where you infiltrate a religious cult and the story changes every time you play. It's 1977 and your nephew has moved deep into the South American jungle. Sneak into his commune, find out what's going on, and try to get the best ending you can.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aunt Fatima - خالة فاطمة — Steam game cover

    Aunt Fatima - خالة فاطمة

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    Aunt Fatima's House: Solve puzzles, find items, and unlock doors while avoiding Aunt Fatima in this scary horror game.Can you escape the deadly house?

    2024IndieAdventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Betrayer — Steam game cover

    Betrayer

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century.The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted the land and drained it of color and life?

    2014ActionIndieAdventureDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Redemption of Liuyin — Steam game cover

    Redemption of Liuyin

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    This is a 3D ancient style fantasy, multi ending action role-playing game. As the third installment of the Ryukyu Hidden series and the Ryukyu Hidden Nine Absolute Reincarnation Chapter, the game is designed with the principle of promoting offense and hesitation to defeat in its combat system.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure18.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    HORROR TALES: The Wine — Steam game cover

    HORROR TALES: The Wine

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D

    2021ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stacklands — Steam game cover

    Stacklands

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

    Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

    2022IndieSimulationCasual7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Simmiland — Steam game cover

    Simmiland

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

    Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!

    2018IndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grunn — Steam game cover

    Grunn

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    pyramida — Steam game cover

    pyramida

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

    A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

    2020StrategyIndie2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    clickyland — Steam game cover

    clickyland

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?

    2024Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    fishy — Steam game cover

    fishy

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

    A game about a hungry fish 🐟 Eat to grow bigger, but watch out for fishes bigger than you! Grow big, strong and explore! Can you escape the pond?

    2020ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    White Lavender — Steam game cover

    White Lavender

    Single-player alternative to Pilfer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pilfer.

    A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!

    2022IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Luckitown — Steam game cover

    Luckitown

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

    Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →