Single-player games like Pets at Work
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Pets at Work, 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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Kinduo 2 - Frostbite
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pets at Work.
Kinduo 2 is a local co-op game where two elemental friends with unique abilities need to help each other to overcome obstacles! Create blocks of ice, burn or melt things, and combine your skills to create plants!
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Jelly & Toast
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pets at Work.
Jelly & Toast is a local co-op game where you control Jelly and Toast on an exciting quest for stolen magical ingredients. Throw your friends or boxes, beware of enemy cooks or kitchen hazards, and explore a world full of culinary challenges!
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Frincess&Cnight
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pets at Work.
Frincess&Cnight is a single-screen puzzle-platformer game about struggle and love between Frog princess and Cat knight.
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Platfuzzles
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pets at Work.
Platfuzzles is a game with short levels where you need to figure out how to reach your powers and use them to get to the goal. It's a platformer with puzzle elements. Jump, dash, pound, shoot, turn invisible and slow down objects to achieve victory!
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Finding Ivy
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pets at Work.
Finding Ivy is a cute casual 2D platformer where 1-4 players make their way through a kid-drawn world to win back their runaway cat. Run, jump, climb, and discover items and friends that help you along the way!
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Goodboy Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pets at Work.
A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.
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CATO: Buttered Cat
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pets at Work.
Puzzle platformer where you control both the cat and the toast, based on the famous "Buttered Cat Paradox". The game features 200+ levels, 70+ skins, plus boss fights and mini-games!
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BattleBlock Theater®
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pets at Work.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
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Virtuous Western
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pets at Work.
Virtuous Western is a strategy game located in the old west, where our protagonist must eliminate all enemies in the area, using a limited amount of bullets to recover your stolen horse.
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Doomed Lands
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pets at Work.
A diabolical demon dooms a teeming island to destruction. Five legendary lieutenants and their minions descend every seven days…but that allows ample time to prepare. Survive, craft, train, and gear up to defend the island!
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Kinduo
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pets at Work.
Kinduo is a local cooperative game where two elemental friends overcome obstacles to return to their island, push boxes, use electricity to connect objects, break ice blocks, blow things up and more in this cute and colorful co-op game!
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Tricks Magician
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pets at Work.
Tricks Magician is a game about a magician who has been trapped in an alternate reality because of his assistant rabbit's revenge, and now must overcome several challenges with a defying gravity and return to your normal world.
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Doom Work
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pets at Work.
In this atypical game, your role is to prevent the working robots from finishing construction to save the forest!
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The Psychoduck
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pets at Work.
The Psychoduck is a stealth game about a psychotic duck who collects crowns and has no problem killing all herons in order to increase his collection.
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Billy 101
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pets at Work.
Meet Billy, a robot who is tired of his work on the production lines, who then decided to blow up everything and everyone in order to make his own choices.
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Blessed Work
Single-player alternative to Pets at Work — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pets at Work.
A new work appears, but for some reason the lack of security is everywhere, place objects, activate buttons, move things and do everything in your power to prevent your workers from dying trying to finish the construction in this lemmings-style game!