Single-player games like Idle Shapes
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Idle Shapes, 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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Forager
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Shapes.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Idle Shapes.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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IDLE BOSS RUSH
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Idle Shapes.
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
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Max Manos
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Shapes.
Max Manos is an incremental destruction game where you play as a powerful hand, known as Max Manos, eliminating shapes. Chain explosive reactions, collect shards, and upgrade your abilities to destroy shapes even faster.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Shapes.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Idling to Rule the Gods
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Idle Shapes.
Idling to Rule the Gods is a free to play Idle-Game with a lot of content and some Minigames. Depending on your play-style, you can play it fast or slow. Either way it can be fun for hundreds of hours!
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idle Shapes.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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Idle Spiral
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Idle Shapes.
This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!
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Hitler Hates Anime
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Shapes.
Take Adolf Hitler under your control and with the power of mighty dildo destroy all naughty anime girls!
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The Line
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Idle Shapes.
Reinventing of 3D puzzles. Experimental gameplay you've never seen before.
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Cube Worlds Survival
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
SURVIVE. EXPLORE. UPGRADE. FIGHT. An endless rogue like shooter RPG game
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The Arena Guy
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Idle Shapes.
It's a really hardcore challenge. How long can you survive on this arena?
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Trump VS Covid: Save The World Clicker
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Idle Shapes.
Save the world from COVID with nukes!
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Anime Arena: Infinite War
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Idle Shapes.
Anime girl fights and survives on a deadly zombie arena!
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Hentai Beach Girls
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Idle Shapes.
Cute anime girls for your pleasure!
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Hentai Match 3
Single-player alternative to Idle Shapes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Idle Shapes.
A match 3 game with cute anime girls for your pleasure! These naughty girls wait for you to play with them. Contains adult erotic content