Single-player games like The Detectorist Guild
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Detectorist Guild, 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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Second Stage
Single-player alternative to The Detectorist Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Detectorist Guild.
You're the newest engineer at a rocket company on a tropical island. Build the rocket, run the sim, make the GO call — then go home to cook, garden, fish, and stargaze. A cozy life-sim about doing the best job on Earth, and living a life worth coming home to.
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Love Tavern 2: Beastmen Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to The Detectorist Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detectorist Guild.
After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different staffs from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.
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Alpaca Rancher
Single-player alternative to The Detectorist Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detectorist Guild.
Collect and care for a variety of unique alpacas while building and expanding your ranch. Cultivate crops, forage for resources, find hidden treasures and complete quests while exploring the wonderful world of Alpaca Rancher!
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The Uncultured
Single-player alternative to The Detectorist Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Detectorist Guild.
The Uncultured is an art museum management game where you turn visitors into artists. Manage your museum, introduce people to art, nurture their talent, and display their creations. Can you transform the uncultured into creators and build the museum of your dreams?
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Travelling Snailsman
Single-player alternative to The Detectorist Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detectorist Guild.
Become a tiny Snailsman in this cozy merchant adventure! Bond with your trusty snail as you find nifty items in the underbrush. Meet travelling folk and sell your newly found wares to buy upgrades and decorations for your snail!
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Samurai Bringer
Single-player alternative to The Detectorist Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Detectorist Guild.
Samurai Bringer is a roguelite action game with levels which change with every playthrough, where you cut down hordes of Samurai and Demons to collect combat techniques and polish your fighting style in order to defeat Yamata-no-Orochi, the eight-headed dragon of Japanese mythology.
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Beat Tokyo with Jimotoism
Single-player alternative to The Detectorist Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Detectorist Guild.
The citizens led by Saitama rise up in rebellion! The epic battle to defeat Tokyo begins now! Get hooked on the unique, wobbly limb controls! Dash through 3D-rendered "hometown (jimoto: your local roots)" worlds in this innovative platformer like no other!
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Cozy Forge: Blacksmith Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Detectorist Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Detectorist Guild.
Cozy Forge is a cozy medieval sim where you run a blacksmith shop. Melt, mold, and forge tools for townsfolk be it a sickle for a peasant or a sword for a knight. Lose yourself in the relaxing rhythm of your forge.