Single-player games like Prison Forever
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Prison Forever, 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 Escapists
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prison Forever.
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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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prison Forever.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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The Magic Circle
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prison Forever.
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prison Forever.
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
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Train Valley
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prison Forever.
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
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SPORE™
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Prison Forever.
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.
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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prison Forever.
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.
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Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prison Forever.
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.
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Tree Simulator 2022
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prison Forever.
It's exactly what it sounds like, but now with 100% more multiplayer. You are the tree and so is everyone else! You are equaled by no other, except maybe the forest... Relax and be the best tree you can be.
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Tree Simulator 2023
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prison Forever.
It's exactly what it sounds like! Have you ever wanted to be a tree? Do you like odd numbers? How about multiplayer, weather, seasons and more!? Well then this is the game for you! Come on down to a place where you will never want to leaf. Relax and be the best tree you can be. 1-250 players.
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Tree Simulator 2020
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prison Forever.
It's exactly what it sounds like. You are the tree! You are equaled by no other. Relax and be the best tree you can be.
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V.T.
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prison Forever.
V.T. is a game where you live through the eyes of the protagonist throughout various horror stories a mix of fiction and non-fiction. Survive and explore the worlds within each story as you navigate unique sandbox environments with utterly terrifying atmospheres. 1-8 players.
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People
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prison Forever.
People is a game where you control an island and the native population of people as an omnipotent being. Build towns, complete quests, puzzles, and help your people thrive!
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James Town Courier Frog MD
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prison Forever.
Welcome to James Town! The Jungle driver is on drugs and is leaving packages in the wrong locations! It is up to Courier Frog MD to fix it. Using your Medical Degree, you must find the lost packages and deliver them!
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Tree Simulator 2021
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prison Forever.
Wood you like marginally improved graphics? Do you like leafing it all behind and taking root in some random field? If so, you are a tree, be the best tree you can be. Prepare for a deeper and more detailed understanding of what it is to be a tree. A true work of art.
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Deer Hunter xTreme Focal Plane
Single-player alternative to Prison Forever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prison Forever.
It's open season! The deer are overpopulating as we speak. Sgt. O'doyle must thin the herd!