Single-player games like The Citizen
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Citizen, 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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Wall
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Citizen.
A short narrative adventure about friendship, loneliness, and staring at surfaces for meaning. Join your personal upright companion through an exploration into what it means to be Human, and what it means to be Wall.
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Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Citizen.
Part visual novel, part WarioWare-inspired minigame collection, Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop is a modern workplace comedy that you can beat within a short session in your office bathroom stall. Multiple stories, multiple minigames, and multiple endings provide replayability.
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Super-Patriota Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Citizen.
Attention! In 72 hours something very important will happen, stay in the streets, do your part and wait for the armed forces! For the future of the country and for the future of your children! The Super-Patriot is coming!
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THE INDIE DEV
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Citizen.
THE INDIE DEV invites you, the player, to a behind-the-scenes look at one wannabe indie darling's sordid tryst with game development. Learn what it takes to be an amateur, laugh at jokes, experience plot twists, and join our rookie dev on a rollercoaster ride that's rapidly running out of track.
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THE CORRIDOR
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Citizen.
THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game.
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YetiParty
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Citizen.
A first-person parody horror. College goofballs are partying hard in the great outdoors - booze, boobs, and bad decisions. What's gonna kill 'em first? Cheap vodka, ancient memes, dirty jokes… or a bloodthirsty Yeti from the woods?
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Citizen.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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Scary Game 2: The Mad Shepherd
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Citizen.
Your first day as the new shepherd in the village… and everything is going wrong. The animals are missing. The villagers are strange. And the truth is far more terrifying.
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Gamble With Your Friends
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Citizen.
An online 1-6 player co-op "casino crawler" where you and your friends share one bank account and one massive debt. Gamble, buy sketchy items, make terrible decisions, and climb an ominous casino tower to hit your loan shark’s daily quota in 5 minutes - or face the consequences.
- 10

Agent in Depth
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Citizen.
Agent in Depth is a daring action-platformer featuring fast-paced action and instant-death combat. You’ll run, jump, aim, and deflect bullets with your katana to blow up your enemies. No checkpoints, no upgrades: just pure skills. Deflect, die, learn, repeat. Be better, be faster.
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Rain Runner
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Citizen.
Rain Runner is a short, blood-pumping speedrunning FPS where you ditch your keyboard and only use your mouse! You’ll run constantly where you look, shoot targets and dash through challenging platforms. No checkpoints, no pauses: beat it in one sitting! Run, die, learn, repeat. Be better, be faster.
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Mini Zen Garden
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Citizen.
Create your own mini zen garden in this calming sandbox game. Decorate your beautiful garden with a minimalistic set of objects. Share your garden with others, sit back, and relieve your day’s stress.
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BANAN'EM UP!
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Citizen.
BANAN'EM UP! is a tiny challenging arcade shoot’em up where you shoot down quirky aliens to save your planet. Evade bullets, shoot enemies, get upgrades, survive for challenging waves to defeat the final boss, "The MONKE". Die, learn, repeat: get stronger, be powerful!
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JAZZ OUT
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Citizen.
JAZZ OUT is a blood-pumping speedrunning FPS platformer where you use enemies as platforms! Punch guards into the air then jump off their heads to gain momentum. Chain gravity-defying combos, master unique moves, and race against time. Perfect your escape and top the global leaderboard!
- 15

CrimSaw
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Citizen.
RIP. THEIR. HEADS. OFF. CrimSaw is a small, fast-paced, and deadly arena FPS with a ‘spin’. You can’t jump and only armed with a badass weapon. Charge, launch and recall your sawblade to slice up endless hordes of demons into pieces. Survive as long as you can and climb up the global leaderboard!
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Little Wings Deliveries
Single-player alternative to The Citizen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Citizen.
Embark on a short, playful adventure in your cozy flying boat and sail through fluffy clouds. Discover floating islands and befriend their quirky citizens. Jump, roll, climb, and skate through Cloudburg as Skye faces her biggest obstacle on her way to the Royal Postal Academy!