Single-player games like The Farmer Was Replaced
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Farmer Was Replaced, 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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If Red Then Stop
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
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Dreamjob: Programmer Simulator - Learn Programming Games
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
A programmer's career sim. Acquire actual coding skills while playing! Learn programming from zero, earn skill points, change your office, create devices and games with visual programming. Our code learning game is a perfect introduction to Python, C++, C#, Java, or JavaScript.
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Pawn.OS()
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
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Automation Farm
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
This is a game that simulates farm management through programming. Players need to develop their economy, upgrade technology, unlock more advanced commands and resources, and deal with various uncertain destructive events. The game simplifies the complexity and extracts the automation elements.
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Droning On
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.
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IT MOVES! - Build Your Own Robot
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.
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Farmer=nil
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Farmer = nil is a programming automation farm game. Write scripts for your robots, collect resources, unlock tech, and build the most efficient farm.
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Musgro Farm
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Start a farming empire in this incremental factory builder. Plant crops, combine them into recipes, and distribute them for sale. Optimize your layouts and reinvest in your infrastructure to maximize your output. Gain experience to unlock new technologies and expand your ever-growing automated farm.
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Bitburner
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
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Screen Creeps
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Build your own unique mech by tinkering with hundreds of weapons and modules. Defend your base against infinite waves of creeps. Research new technologies and take your mech building skill to the next level!
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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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7 Billion Humans
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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Bots Are Stupid
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Farmer Was Replaced.
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
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Automaton Lung
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Make use of your special abilities to skate, shoot, and fly through over 40 unique locations. In a strange land with almost no information you must be resourceful and clever. Question everything you see and trust nothing you hear.
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Assembly Planter
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.