Single-player games like Selfless Heroes
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Selfless Heroes, 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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Upalu Mundi
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Upalu Mundi is a puzzle game set in a dwarven world at the dawn of railways. Lay tracks, build stations and set switches to keep goods moving and profits soaring. Read the news to see how the public reacts as you shape the future of transportation!
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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
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Great Permutator
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
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Prime Mover
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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Linkito
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
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Tomorrow
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
‘Tomorrow’ is a VR experience about how humans have evolved through language over time. It takes us on a mesmerizing journey from prehistoric caves and the Amazonian jungle to the top of the Himalayas. We finally approach ‘Tomorrow’, our next phase of evolution where VR is the new language.
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7 Billion Humans
Single-player alternative to Selfless Heroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!