Single-player games like Covid Simulator
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Covid Simulator, 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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Trolley Problem, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.
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Planetary Life
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
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Universe Sandbox
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
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Graveyard Keeper
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
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The Sapling
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Covid Simulator.
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
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Reigns
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.
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Mars Horizon
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
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60 Parsecs!
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.
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Interstellaria
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.