Single-player games like Thorns: Police never sleeps
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Thorns: Police never sleeps, 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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Transregnum
Single-player alternative to Thorns: Police never sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Thorns: Police never sleeps.
Step into a dystopian visual novel where secrets, betrayal, and self-discovery collide. Follow Garrett Marek's text-driven journey through a world ruled by Deus Magnus Rotamea. Unravel family mysteries, confront fate, and explore a linear story where every revelation brings you closer to the truth!
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Thorns: Police never sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Thorns: Police never sleeps.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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Pegasus: Broken Wings
Single-player alternative to Thorns: Police never sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Thorns: Police never sleeps.
Follow a new set of events involving Pegasus-5 crew with them being stuck in a city under curfew after a terrorist attack and getting entangled in a massive conspiracy. Stick close to your allies, build romantic relations, and make important choices.
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Exit: A Biodelic Adventure
Single-player alternative to Thorns: Police never sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Thorns: Police never sleeps.
In the world of excessive biotechnologies, an epidemic is ravaging the human race, infecting people's neuronet implants and enslaving them to the mysterious Worm. Who are you: a fighter of the infection, or a hunter of new prey?
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Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3
Single-player alternative to Thorns: Police never sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Thorns: Police never sleeps.
MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.
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Splinter
Single-player alternative to Thorns: Police never sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Thorns: Police never sleeps.
A first-person psychedelic movie embedded in a 3D environment
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Fallen Seeds
Single-player alternative to Thorns: Police never sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Thorns: Police never sleeps.
As Evod, a special agent of the Earth Empire, you embark on a thrilling adventure to the enigmatic planet of Ulthar, inhabited by the zoomorphic tribe of the Flock, a biotechnological extraterrestrial civilization. Your mission is to unravel an ancient mystery that holds the key to your destiny.
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Ceiba
Single-player alternative to Thorns: Police never sleeps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Thorns: Police never sleeps.
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.