Single-player games like Fatherhood
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Fatherhood, 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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Espionage
Single-player alternative to Fatherhood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.
1941, occupied Europe. You are Siegfried, a British SOE agent paired with Selena, a Soviet spy posing as your wife. Infiltrate, decode, and choose — across Paris, Berlin, and Lisbon. Every decision rewrites history. A WWII spy thriller where love and betrayal are the deadliest weapons.
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Super Lone Survivor
Single-player alternative to Fatherhood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fatherhood.
The masked protagonist must escape the city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary. Use stealth to scavenge food, or kill everything in your path. Nurture your mental health or descend into madness. How you survive is up to you.
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Hollow Home
Single-player alternative to Fatherhood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.
Hollow Home is a narrative survival RPG set in a city under siege. Learn to adapt, choose who to trust and make decisions that carry real weight. No weapons, no battles and no easy answers.
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Deer & Boy
Single-player alternative to Fatherhood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fatherhood.
In this poetic cinematic platformer, a runaway boy meets a fawn. As their bond grows, so do their abilities and the emotional weight of their journey, where silence speaks louder than words.
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1000xRESIST
Single-player alternative to Fatherhood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.
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Steel Seed
Single-player alternative to Fatherhood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fatherhood.
Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction. Play as Zoe and her drone Koby as they explore a hostile underground facility. Uncover secrets, survive dangers, search for answers, and humanity’s last hope.
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Goodnight Universe
Single-player alternative to Fatherhood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.
From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Fatherhood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fatherhood.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.