Single-player games like The Parenting Simulator
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Parenting Simulator, 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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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Parenting Simulator.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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Growing Up
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Parenting Simulator.
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
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Magical Princess
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Parenting Simulator.
Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Parenting Simulator.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Zombie Exodus
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
It starts with a daring escape from a zombie-infested city; it ends at Zombie Exodus, when a horde of zombies swarms outlying settlements like locusts.
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The Golden Rose: Book One
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
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Volcano Princess
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Parenting Simulator.
Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Parenting Simulator.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Fallen Hero: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!
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Fallen Hero: Retribution
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.
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Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
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Tin Star
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.
- 13
Community College Hero: Trial by Fire
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.
- 14
Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?
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Lords of Infinity
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
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Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two
Single-player alternative to The Parenting Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Parenting Simulator.
Under the lights of the carnival, will romance and adventure bloom anew? The quiet town of Wayhaven is once again the center of supernatural occurrences.