Single-player games like Bitburner
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Bitburner, 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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Hacknet
Single-player alternative to Bitburner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
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Uplink
Single-player alternative to Bitburner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Bitburner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Upload Labs
Single-player alternative to Bitburner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Free To Play with Bitburner.
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to Bitburner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Quadrilateral Cowboy
Single-player alternative to Bitburner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
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Linkito
Single-player alternative to Bitburner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Grey Hack
Single-player alternative to Bitburner — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.