Single-player games like FACEMINER
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to FACEMINER, 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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Execute
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.
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MMO98
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with FACEMINER.
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
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Military Incremental Complex
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with FACEMINER.
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
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Department 98
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with FACEMINER.
Your placement is confirmed. Report to District Intake, desk seven. The previous occupant's effects have been cleared. An idle game inside a fake 1990s office OS about paperwork, promotion, and a job going very well.
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Weapon Shop Decillionaire
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
Weapon Shop Decillionaire is an idle game where weapons turn your dreams of wealth into reality. Build and sell equipment, use the profit to enhance it, while mastering strategic weapon placement on your shop's grid. It's time to become a decillionaire, one sword at a time!
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AI Domination 98
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
Crank the AI up to god-tier, take over the world, end humanity… on a Win98 desktop by connecting modules..
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Snakecremental
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with FACEMINER.
Snake, but with a skill tree
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Cult Nation
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
A short incremental game about sacrificing all your cult followers and collecting blood to awaken the devil.
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Uplink
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
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Pigeon: A Love Story
Single-player alternative to FACEMINER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with FACEMINER.
Soar over life-size, to-scale cities in this needle-in-a-haystack simulation. Find one specific pigeon among millions of autonomous birds, team up in multiplayer 'Coo-op', or just relax and enjoy the flight in a game about nothing and everything.