Single-player games like Playable Mockup
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Playable Mockup, 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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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Playable Mockup.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Deep Sky Derelicts
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Playable Mockup.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
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Vault of the Void
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Playable Mockup.
Vault of the Void is a fast-paced roguelike deckbuilder where the power is in your hands. Continuously customise your deck, crafting powerful combos and ingenious strategies. Upgrade your cards with Void Stones, infusing them with new abilities to help defeat the minions of The Void!
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One Step From Eden
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Playable Mockup.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Playable Mockup.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Playable Mockup.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Aces & Adventures
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Playable Mockup.
Aces & Adventures is a deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat. Craft your deck, combining poker hands with powerful ability cards. Journey through 13 fully-voiced campaigns to save the Life Tree, or tackle procedurally-generated runs in this strategic deckbuilder unlike any other.
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Ratropolis
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Playable Mockup.
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
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Draconic Route
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In the 1980s arcade game taste, stoic and polished tactics.
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国際指定怪異123号 廃村
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Playable Mockup.
毎年出現する「廃村」と呼ばれる奇妙な無人村には、必ず1人の少女が生贄として幽閉される… 廃村に突入する3人の特殊部隊と、監禁された1人の少女を操作し、脱出を目指します。
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Photogenic Minds : Identity
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Playable Mockup.
"デッキ構築型3D探索サイコホラー"。 PM0:00からAM0:00までの12時間を支配し、無限ループを抜けて死者の魂を捕獲して下さい。 使えるのはたった1つのカメラだけ。
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The Children's Friend
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
少しだけ恐ろしいサンタになって、子供たちにプレゼントを配ろう。 家にあるものを見て、良い子なのか、悪い子なのか考え、ふさわしいプレゼントを贈らなければならない。 プレゼントは玩具か、はたまたチェーンソーの一撃か?
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Doll's Liminal
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Avoid or defeat dolls that move when you're not looking, take their bodies, and make your way to the 399th dimension. This is a short horror game of fear and strategy, an exploration survival horror.
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In the footage
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"In the footage" is a horror exploration game.[/h2]You awaken in an empty room with nothing to do but play a videotape lying on the floor and contemplate the meaning of the footage. That's all you can do at this point.
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国際指定怪異124号 東京廃村
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
特殊部隊全滅ホラー/4人ザッピング操作アクション。全てがリアルタイムに進行する中で、極限のストレスが狂乱のアドレナリンに進化するまで戦いましょう。心折れるまで挑む、1ラウンドが短くリプレイ性の高いハードコアなゲーム性をお楽しみ下さい。
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Days Like A Nightmare
Single-player alternative to Playable Mockup — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Playable Mockup.
Who is infected with the parasite 'Rubyuk'? Place sensors, observe the readings, and build your deductions. Then confront the nightmare – mostly in a physical manner. This is a short, scary game that combines reasoning with mini-action.