Single-player games like Growth
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Growth, 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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Little Groves
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Little Groves is a peaceful strategy-puzzle game about growing a forest and protecting it from the forces that threaten it. Place tiles, discover more than 50 hidden groves, chain together Harmonies and bend the changing wind to keep fire, drought and blight at bay.
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Weidengrund
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Growth.
Weidengrund is a meditative medieval village sandbox builder woven into a living, breathing, painterly landscape. Snap together uniquely detailed Fachwerk architecture, design organic paths that wind through windswept meadows, and tend to your hamlet as it grows into a tranquil sanctuary.
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Fishing Spot
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growth.
Fishing Spot is a relaxing fishing game about discovering unique fishing locations and the species that inhabit them. Generate new spots with their own ecosystems, fish populations, bite schedules and bait preferences, chase records, and build your collection — all at your own pace.
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Station to Station
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!
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Feather Trace
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Inside vast biodomes, embark on a one-of-a-kind birdwatching journey built around deck-building, Birdpedia collection, and long-term progression. Explore diverse habitats, meet birds of every kind, and study them through card-based play to fill out your Birdpedia.
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VoxelForge
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growth.
Build block by block. Furnish down to the smallest detail. VoxelForge is a single-player creative building game combining a cubic world, realistic materials and built-in interactive furniture. Design your home, shape its surroundings and explore your creations in first person.
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WATERFUL: a tiny oasis builder
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
A relaxing puzzle game inspired by nature. Dig riverbeds to guide water through desert valleys and grow a variety of plants, then zoom in to discover hidden animals drawn to new habitats. Earn points for your discoveries and unlock new contraptions to transform the dry landscape into a lush oasis!
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Mini Worlds
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Mini Worlds is a cozy building toy about creating tiny cities on a small world. Build and decorate with no goals or timer.
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Solitaire
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Growth.
The classic card game is back in a digital version that everyone can play! Enjoy a quick game or chase after points to climb up the world rankings. 4 different settings and 3 popular game modes. Quite simply, Solitaire.
- 10
Minesweeper Classy
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Growth.
A modern and stylish take on a classic logic puzzle game. Play the classic minesweeper levels, beat unique level layouts and challenges, or create and share your own level designs. Features a ton of customization options.
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Dorfromantik
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
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Nonograms
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Nonograms is a relaxing puzzle game where you use logic and creativity. Your goal is to reveal hidden pictures by filling in specific grid cells, based on numerical clues provided for each row and column. The games in this genre are also known as Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, Hanjie, etc.
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Sudoku
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Growth.
Play the classic Sudoku game for everyone. Fill in the empty cells with numbers from 1 to 9.
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Collector's Cove
Single-player alternative to Growth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growth.
All aboard! Collector’s Cove is a cozy farming adventure on the high seas. Sail with your animal friend to uncharted waters, cultivate your floating farm, and discover new islands, crops and fish on your quest to become a Named Collector!