Single-player games like My Little Life
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to My Little Life, 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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The Giant of Torridge Island
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with My Little Life.
Help or hinder Torridge Island as you take control of a Giant in this sandbox of villagers, wildlife and natural disasters. Will the villagers praise you and beg for your return in the morning, or pray that you never reappear.
- 2
Poly Skies
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
Poly Skies is an introductory city builder designed to help you relax. Take care of your villagers, expand to new islands, unlock secrets and defend from sky-high threats.
- 3
Meu Mundo
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
More than a game, a new way of seeing the world
- 4
Catizens
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
- 5
MuMu get to Work
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
This is a simulation management and home-building game where you can raise all sorts of slimes. These slimes will cultivate farmland, bake bread, and produce various unique goods. Plan your shops to sell goods to customers and earn plenty of coins. As your wealth accumulates, build your own town.
- 6
Ropuka's Idle Island
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
A cozy idle game that sits anywhere on your desktop. Watch the frog cut grass, upgrade his tools, and decorate the island while you work or relax.
- 7
dEskape
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
'dEskape' is a base-building game which sits across the bottom of your desktop allowing you to work, browse, or watch something else while you play. It's idle when you like and active when you want.
- 8
Autonauts vs Piratebots
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
- 9
Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- 10
Two Point Hospital
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
- 11
Big Tower Tiny Square
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with My Little Life.
No Princess, only Pineapple! Dodge bullets, leap lava pits, and wall-jump your way up the Big Tower in this precision platformer. Quick deaths, generous respawns, and a whole lot of jumping.
- 12
Virtual Villagers Origins 2
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with My Little Life.
Craft, build, farm, breed and solve puzzles in a village right on your computer!
- 13
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.
- 14
The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with My Little Life.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
- 15
Townscaper
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
- 16
My Little Spider
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Little Life.
Adopt a cute pet spider that lives anywhere on your desktop! Team up to discover unique bugs, decorate their web, and unlock adorable spider hats as you work or relax.
- 17
Heretic's Fork
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!
- 18
Zapling Bygone
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with My Little Life.
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.
- 19
HF: Probation
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with My Little Life.
Dear candidate, start your free probation period as manager of Hell! Punish sinners by using our deck-building system, constructing fiendish towers to manage underworld hordes. Good luck!
- 20
Heretic's Rapture
Single-player alternative to My Little Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with My Little Life.
Build a tower out of tetris-like blocks to survive endless waves of demons. A tetris-like, tower-defence, deck-building, bullet-heaven.