Single-player games like The Happy Hereafter
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Happy Hereafter, 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 Promised Land
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
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The Musketeers: Victoria's Quest
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Happy Hereafter.
Guide a young woman on her quest to become a musketeer in this thrilling arcade adventure! With lush visuals, a captivating story, and addictive time management gameplay, The Musketeers: Victoria's Quest offers an unforgettable saga of high adventure!
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MOAI: Build Your Dream
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
Discover the wonders of an uncharted island and help the natives restore their ravaged land to its former glory in Moai: Build Your Dream! Overcome the fury of an active volcano, hordes of attacking ghosts and the threat of dwindling resources as you guide the hero and a native princess on their quest.
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Rescue Team
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
Control the rescue workers who rebuild three islands in the wake of devastating weather! Repair damaged restaurants, houses, and sawmills to produce necessary resources. Race against the clock to collect gems, put out fires, and save stranded swimmers!
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Farm Frenzy: Heave Ho
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
Yarrrrrr! Scarlett is back in an all-new Farm Frenzy adventure that puts the fun back in farming! Guide the red-haired beauty as she sets aside her vacation plans to help the animals of an abandoned island learn to provide for themselves.
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Weather Lord: The Successor's Path
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
Rebuild a devastated land, save your people from peril, and face off against an array of bizarre enemies in Weather Lord: The Successor's Path, a captivating time management epic! Play clever and play quick, and victory will be yours!
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Weather Lord: Hidden Realm
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
Command powerful forces of nature to free an island of an evil scourge! With the elements in your hands, a sword at your side and a little magic in your pocket, no one will be able to stop you on your march to victory!
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Ballad of Solar
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
In a land of enchantment, torn by evil, a hero arrives to save the day! Guide Solar and his band of helpers as they set out to stop the dark sorcerer Grogan from achieving eternal life and to rescue the fair Lumina.
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Wall World
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Happy Hereafter.
Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
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Necrosmith
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Happy Hereafter.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
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Beholder: Conductor
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Happy Hereafter.
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
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Karate Survivor
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
Become a martial arts master in this survivor-like roguelite inspired by action movies of the ‘80s. Use your fists, feet, and the environment to fight off relentless thugs. Master powerful combos, enhance your skills, and remember: everything around you is a weapon!
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Wall World 2
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Happy Hereafter.
The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!
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Necrosmith 2
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Happy Hereafter.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
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They Always Run
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Become Aiden, a three-armed mutant who hunts the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. Catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies in this exciting 2D platformer with a space-western setting.
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The Last Gas Station
Single-player alternative to The Happy Hereafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Happy Hereafter.
In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.