Single-player games like Upload Simulator Silicon
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Upload Simulator Silicon, 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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Upload Simulator
Single-player alternative to Upload Simulator Silicon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Upload Simulator Silicon.
A incremental game about downloading files, uploading, and upgrading your setup. This is the official PC version of Upload Simulator.
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Idle Factory
Single-player alternative to Upload Simulator Silicon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Upload Simulator Silicon.
Idle can also build your industrial empire.
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Pioneer Clicker
Single-player alternative to Upload Simulator Silicon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Upload Simulator Silicon.
Clicker game played at the bottom of the screen. A village chief is lost on the road after his village is destroyed by demons. The lord of the village gives him an order to open up a new frontier and cultivate the land. The village chief's hell of endless cultivation begins.
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From atom to modern
Single-player alternative to Upload Simulator Silicon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Upload Simulator Silicon.
From the manufacture of monoatomic hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon, to the creation of the earth, from apes to Homo erectus, to nuclear weapons, rockets, to artificial intelligence, to exploring the universe.
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PC Building Empire
Single-player alternative to Upload Simulator Silicon — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build PCs of different rarities, hire workers with buffs and debuffs, and expand your shop. Train stats in special rooms, customize floors and colors, and relax in a cozy idle indie game in Early Access that grows with feedback from the community.
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Factory Town Idle
Single-player alternative to Upload Simulator Silicon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Upload Simulator Silicon.
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
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Digseum
Single-player alternative to Upload Simulator Silicon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Upload Simulator Silicon.
Digseum is a short incremental journey about digging up ancient relics and building the greatest museum ever!
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Upload Labs
Single-player alternative to Upload Simulator Silicon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Upload Simulator Silicon.
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect