Single-player games like The Farmer Was Replaced
Below are 13 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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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
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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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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Rusty's Retirement
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
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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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Upload Labs
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
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while True: learn()
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Farmer Was Replaced.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
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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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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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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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Screeps: World
Single-player alternative to The Farmer Was Replaced — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Farmer Was Replaced.
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
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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.