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Single-player games like My Child New Beginnings

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to My Child New Beginnings, 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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    Cruise Maid: Ship's Company — Steam game cover

    Cruise Maid: Ship's Company

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Child New Beginnings.

    You're a cabin maid on a luxury cruise ship. Clean rooms. Earn tips. Have dinner with the crew every night. Find your people. A cozy management sim and visual novel about starting over somewhere new - and building family from strangers.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Depression The Game — Steam game cover

    Depression The Game

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Child New Beginnings.

    Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?

    2018IndieSimulation1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    浮生箓 Floating Life — Steam game cover

    浮生箓 Floating Life

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Child New Beginnings.

    《浮生箓》是一款剧情重开模拟游戏,互动式轻量小说游戏。支持创意工坊自由编辑与上传自己的剧本,融合如修仙、武侠、玄幻等小说题材的背景,可自由选择出生的剧本,体验千变万化的人生,从出生开始让你体验到丰富多变的剧情,多种多样的选择,不同选择带来不同的变化,各种有趣的梗。来吧,开始你的浮生之旅,随着进程生成自己的浮生箓!

    2022IndieSimulationCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lonely Christmas — Steam game cover

    Lonely Christmas

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Child New Beginnings.

    It’s a story about an 8-year-old boy Kevin who was left alone at home at Christmas. Protect your house from a crazy robber and wait for your parents. Can you handle with it? We’ll find out.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation3.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    My Child Lebensborn — Steam game cover

    My Child Lebensborn

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with My Child New Beginnings.

    《My Child Lebensborn》is a story driven nurture game based on real events. Play as the adoptive parent of Karin or Klaus, and experience the struggles they go through along them. Balance your time and resources wisely, while helping your child cope with effects of hatred.

    2021SimulationRPGCasualDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    我的时光:大学日记 — Steam game cover

    我的时光:大学日记

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Child New Beginnings.

    《College Diaries》 is a simulation game set against the backdrop of college life. Players take on the role of a college freshman, shaping their college career by choosing different majors, joining various clubs, participating in campus activities.

    2026IndieSimulationRPG13.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I Was a Teenage Exocolonist — Steam game cover

    I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Child New Beginnings.

    Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

    2022IndieSimulationRPG12.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Retirement Simulator — Steam game cover

    Retirement Simulator

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Child New Beginnings.

    Retirement Simulator is a game that simulates the retirement life. Customize your retirement and realize your ultimate goals: become a world traveller, an influencer, a KungFu Master or more. Through discovering stories and events, you will also deepen your bonds with your familiy and the community.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation13.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss — Steam game cover

    Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with My Child New Beginnings.

    Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shadow Puppeteer — Steam game cover

    Shadow Puppeteer

    Single-player alternative to My Child New Beginnings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with My Child New Beginnings.

    Invite a friend to explore the strange, yet beautiful world of darkness and light in Shadow Puppeteer, an award-winning, local co-op adventure.

    2014IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →