Single-player games like An Engineer and the Great Machine
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to An Engineer and the Great Machine, 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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Labeloop
Single-player alternative to An Engineer and the Great Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Labeloop is a darkly comic incremental clicker about a debt you can't escape. Slap labels on the Company's bottles, hit your nightly rent, and claw your way out of an ever-deeper hole. Clear your debt and they'll thank you with a bullet — then bill you for the funeral.
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Reclaimer
Single-player alternative to An Engineer and the Great Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Become a class war folk hero in the capitalist hellscape of tomorrow, slashing through hordes of biomechanical robots and connecting the evidence in your quest to reclaim your humanity and save the world.
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I.T. Never Ends
Single-player alternative to An Engineer and the Great Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
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The Copperfield Department
Single-player alternative to An Engineer and the Great Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
The Copperfield Department is a text-based puzzle game where players take over the role of a social media detective. As tasked by Big Business Inc., a company controlling the country, your job is to hunt for social media accounts that could prove harmful to their image.
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BioBioBio: Creatures OS
Single-player alternative to An Engineer and the Great Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Splice genes into strange living creatures for a cheerfully evil biotech corp — inside a game that pretends to be your work computer. Raise them, breed them, put them to work, and hit quota before the Review Cycle ends. Your employer calls them Bioassets™.
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Dystopicon
Single-player alternative to An Engineer and the Great Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
An uncomfortable dystopian time-management game where your job is watching TV to earn money and buy services to survive after robots replace humans at work. Choose to be a good citizen or a rebel. But beware! Curiosity has a price in this dystopian life simulator.
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BioShock Infinite
Single-player alternative to An Engineer and the Great Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
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The Conglomerate
Single-player alternative to An Engineer and the Great Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Start as a garage coder in the 80s and evolve into a dystopian corporate overlord. This genre-bending simulation shifts as you grow: solve coding puzzles, design isometric MMO worlds, and construct massive automated factories to replace human staff with AI. Conquer the industry at any cost.