Single-player games like Pocket Watch
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Pocket Watch, 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
- 1
Pecker
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
Pecker offers a unique climbing mechanic in a colorful world filled with puzzles and some enemies.
- 2
Bunderkin: The Ocular Eclipse
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
Trapped in a 3‑day time loop, you must master each moment and live the perfect day or watch the town that despises you fall into darkness.
- 3
Pru the Pigeon
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!
- 4
Fishy 3D
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
An adventure game about a hungry fish 🐟 Dive, jump, swim and eat your way through a lush micro-world. Can you escape the polluted pond?
- 5
Cats in Time
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!
- 6
Sapo 3D
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
A 3D linear collect-a-thon platformer about a frog. Collect golden flies, unlock new worlds, and interact with a variety of mechanics and powerups. Finally, discover what lies behind the great gate.
- 7
A Hat in Time
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
- 8
Yooka-Laylee
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
- 9
Minit
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.
- 10
A Short Hike
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
- 11
Stacklands
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pocket Watch.
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!
- 12
Simmiland
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pocket Watch.
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!
- 13
Grunn
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
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?
- 14
pyramida
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pocket Watch.
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 . . .
- 15
clickyland
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — 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?
- 16
fishy
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pocket Watch.
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?
- 17
White Lavender
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pocket Watch.
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!
- 18
Luckitown
Single-player alternative to Pocket Watch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pocket Watch.
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.