Single-player games like Picket Line
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Picket Line, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Picket Line page.
Ranked picks
- 1
The Hearth and Harbour
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Transform a run-down restaurant and build a new life for yourself in this management RPG. Decide what kind of restaurant you want to create and what kind of person you want to be. As a storm brews outside, every choice you make has consequences.
- 2
Throne of Decisions
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Throne of Decisions is a medieval card-based strategy game where every choice shapes the future. As King, you must maintain the balance of power by approving or rejecting the petitions of your subjects. Determine the fate of your people and lead your kingdom to glory or ruin.
- 3
Modest Hero
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The violent clashes in the suburbs ended as a result of the military's harsh interventions. During the clashes, a general was killed brutally by a group of rebels. Seven people suspected of killing the general were arrested in next morning.
- 4
No Greater Glory: The American Civil War
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In No Greater Glory: The American Civil War, you take on the role of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis in the epic conflict of 1861. Manage military, political, and economic challenges, lead armies into battle, and navigate diplomacy to change the course of history in this deep strategy game.
- 5
My Friend Stalin
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
For the first time on steam. The greatest dictator of all time is now dancing on your desktop!
- 6
Imperator: Rome
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.
- 7
Crisis in the Kremlin
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
- 8
Through the Darkest of Times
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.
- 9
Sketchbots
Single-player alternative to Picket Line — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hone your programming skills through a series of increasingly complex challenges in which you use a node based language to guide your robot through the required goals.