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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 — Steam game cover

    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!

    2025IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Citizen Sleeper — Steam game cover

    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.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pegasus: Broken Wings — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Exit: A Biodelic Adventure — Steam game cover

    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?

    2024IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Splinter — Steam game cover

    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

    2020Indie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallen Seeds — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024IndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ceiba — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023Indie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →