Single-player games like Bob Help Them
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Bob Help Them, 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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Colorful Colore
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bob Help Them.
Colorful Colore is a Puzzle Labyrinth game, where your objective is to get in the exit matching the correct colors in the way.
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Kingdom: Classic
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bob Help Them.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
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Braid
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bob Help Them.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
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UFO 50
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bob Help Them.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
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Don Duality
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bob Help Them.
Don Duality is a Chaos Manager game with card mechanics. Send your gangsters to the heist and launder money in your restaurant. Hire staff and upgrade your establishment, but remember that life like a roulette wheel and not everything can be fully controlled in Don's journey.
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Mini Motorways
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Bob Help Them.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
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Tooth and Tail
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bob Help Them.
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
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You Must Build A Boat
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bob Help Them.
You Must Build A Boat is the sequel to the award winning "10000000". Travel the world, run procedurally generated dungeons finding artifacts, capturing monsters and recruiting crew for your boat
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Shelldiver
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!
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Rocket Rats
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Bob Help Them.
Rocket Rats is a survivors-like game where you defeat cheese-based astral bodies in space – as a rat! Clear waves of enemies, collect cheese, upgrade your gear, and conquer the moon!
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Doomed to Hell
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Doomed to Hell is a roguelike-like top-down shooter where you play as Rose, a human in hell who will need to fight all of its monsters in waves of enemies, defeat bosses, and get new weapons to earn back his life on earth.
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Archaeogem
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hats up and whips out; the wilderness' mysteries await! Explore lush biomes, use your trusty whip to extract wild flowers' mystic powers, and collect rare gems in this dynamic precision-platformer. Unearth archaeological marvels and become a legend!
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Toroom
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Toroom is a dungeon crawler roguelike-like top-down shooter, where the protagonist just wants to come back to his bedroom after waking up in a world of fantasy. Fight your way through multiple biomes, clear rooms full of enemies, get as much loot as possible and defeat the bosses in your way.
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Gemini
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bob Help Them.
Gemini is an action tower defense game, where your goal is to protect the crystal and stay alive.
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Wizodd
Single-player alternative to Bob Help Them — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Bob Help Them.
Wizodd is a dungeon crawler roguelike game where you find various equipment and upgrades while encountering dangerous monsters and bosses to advance down to the lower floors.