Single-player games like Heliopedia
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Heliopedia, 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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Tuin
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Plant seeds, pull weeds and sell vegetables - all while doing something else!
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helionaut
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
An open-world galaxy adventure game ✨🚀🌠 Explore a procedurally-generated universe filled with diverse micro-planets, asteroid belts and UFOs. 👽
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Vilmonic
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!
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Loafing Town
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.
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PolyPine
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
A forest simulator where you grow trees and create habitats for animals, plants and insects. Click on animals to make them poop, hunt, dig, cut and twerk! Start with a few basic seeds and attempt to grow a thriving ecosystem.
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Solar 2
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Equilinox
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.
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Doodle God
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.
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Stacklands
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
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!
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Simmiland
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
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!
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Grunn
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
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?
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pyramida
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
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 . . .
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clickyland
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — 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?
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fishy
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
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?
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White Lavender
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
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!
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Luckitown
Single-player alternative to Heliopedia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.