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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A PhD Simulator - Publish & Perish
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Covid Simulator.
A satirical life-sim about surviving a biology PhD — run experiments, dodge scooping, manage your advisor, and try to graduate with your sanity (mostly) intact.
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Planet Genesis 2
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Covid Simulator.
Design your own solar systems and enjoy watching them orbit, collide and smash each other in a cosmic dance!
- 3
Mossu
Single-player alternative to Covid Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Covid Simulator.
Grow real plants in your own microgravity cube-sat terrarium. Build, prune, water, harvest, and learn botany through a simulation based on real behavior.
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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?
- 5
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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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.