Single-player games like Playtown Genesis
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Playtown Genesis, 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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Lobsterpunk
Single-player alternative to Playtown Genesis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Playtown Genesis.
Make your way through an abandon city powered solely by the combustion of lobsters. Bring the dead machinery one last breath of life before their steel forms lay cold forever. As you do, see the memories of the last man in the city, & how familiar that might feel, however foreign the setting.
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What Lies Within The Ivory Tower
Single-player alternative to Playtown Genesis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Playtown Genesis.
What Lies Within The Ivory Tower is a story driven, first person, action adventure platformer set on Titan. Players must use their wits and limited toolkit to navigate a Brutalist Mid-Century facility plagued by a deadly darkness. Use light to push back the darkness and avoid certain death.
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Cyberpunk Horror
Single-player alternative to Playtown Genesis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Playtown Genesis.
Cyberpunk Horror - is a first-person horror game that conveys a real atmosphere of horror in a cyberpunk setting.
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First Samurai
Single-player alternative to Playtown Genesis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Playtown Genesis.
In ancient Japan, a young samurai watches as his people and his Master are massacred by the hands of the Demon King. He swears vengeance and invokes the power of the Witch... Thus begins the pursuit of the Demon King through space and time - a bloody crusade where there is no turning back...
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StoryForge
Single-player alternative to Playtown Genesis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Playtown Genesis.
Create your own protagonist and live a serialized novel written around them. Steer your saga with your choices, talk to the characters you meet, and watch it unfold episode by episode in prose written to read like a real novel, in a world that remembers everything you do.
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Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
Single-player alternative to Playtown Genesis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Playtown Genesis.
Nikopol is a first-person dystopian point-and-click sci-fi adventure game. In 2023 France is ruled by an iron-fist religious dictatorship. A mysterious pyramid ship suddenly appears above Paris. Begin to unravel a conspiracy involving the government, your missing father, and Egyptian Gods.
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Fossilfuel
Single-player alternative to Playtown Genesis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Playtown Genesis.
Fossilfuel, is a horror action shooter, where the player must fight their way through Jurassic monsters and Super Soldiers, in this multi-ending, adrenaline-fueled cyberpunk experience!
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UNDYING - "KINGDOM"
Single-player alternative to Playtown Genesis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Playtown Genesis.
As Anling’s zombie infection sets in, her days are numbered. The struggle to survive is made ever more paramount as she must ensure her son Cody stays alive. She must teach him how to survive in this new world at any cost…