Single-player games like Retention
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Retention, 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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Trekking and Camping | 远足与露营
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Trekking and Camping is a climbing-themed walking simulation game that tells the daily adventures of the protagonist named Allen.
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Waves Running Simulator
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Have you seen the enormous waves destroying the planet? If not, you are in the right place! In Waves Running Simulator you have to escape from the tsunami as fast as possible.
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One Night Stand
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?
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10mg: Locked In
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Locked In is a two-player visual novel simulating the breakdown of a marriage during lockdown.
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Disturbed
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.
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Exploring Friscott
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
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Burly Men at Sea
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.
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ViruStream
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
One day, the game distribution site “ViruStream” was infected by a virus caused by hackers! Solve the riddles that the hacker gives you and remove the virus! Inspired by a certain experiential escape game, this is a puzzle-solving game with a time limit of 60 minutes!
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Make it indie!
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.
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Bacteria
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
'Bacteria' - A relaxing puzzle game based on the rules of the cellular automaton ‘Life’ devised by John Horton Conway in 1970.
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Energy Balance
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
Energy Balance is a number puzzle. You have to swap power units in such a way that their sums form correct chains both vertically and horizontally. The game is easy to learn, but very hard to master. So, are you ready to peep under the hood of an alien spaceship?
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Energy Cycle
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
'Energy Cycle' – new puzzle game from the developers of ‘Energy Balance’. When you click each cell on the game field - it changes color, and the colors of adjacent cells horizontally and vertically. Your task to bring all the cells to the same color. Sounds pretty easy, but try to do it!
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Energy Invasion
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
Energy Invasion - an arcade game inspired by the classic Breakout. Unlike the original game, your ball does not break blocks on its own, but can launch missiles in a chosen direction.