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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WTF Is Wrong With You?
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Covid Simulator.
Have you ever wondered WTF Is Wrong With You? Well, so have we... Let's find out together, shall we?
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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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Let's Drive - learn driving simulator
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
There are 1.3 billion cars in the world. But how many good drivers are there? Is every one of them trained and competent? Find out while playing Let's Drive, a driving school simulator that shows you hazardous situations on the road and puts you right in them.
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Psychiatrist Simulator
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Have you ever wanted to be a psychiatrist? Now you can! Be a shrink for 14 days. Meet 14 patients with unique story of their lives. Diagnosis, treatment, chosen dialogues have impact on history of patients. The choice is yours.
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Biotope
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Covid Simulator.
Biotope will be the most detailed and realistic aquarium simulator on the market. Biotope makes it possible to create complex aquarist ecosystems and simulate realistic life cycles of plants and fish.
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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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Pestis
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
A young Plague Doctor, only to learn that the Academy sent to a small village, which, like the whole country is gripped by plague
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Gridworld
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger, and compete with other creatures for survival.
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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.