Single-player games like Retention
Below are 14 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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Iron Circus × INDIEPOCALYPSE Game Jam
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Six weird games from six killer team-ups between indie game devs and indie comics artists! We've got puzzles, adventures, exploration, and baby werewolves in this collab between Iron Circus Comics x INDIEPOCALYPSE!
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Charon 卡戎
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
A point-and-click narrative puzzle game with a delicate art style and soothing pace. In this Underworld at the end of all things, guide souls who lost their memories and speech safely across the Styx. Luckily, our protagonist is about to face the most restless bunch of them all...
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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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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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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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Bench Simulator
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
You are a park bench. Watch strangers sit, talk, break down, fall in love, argue, and reveal their secrets in a story-rich narrative simulation where your smallest reactions can change everything.
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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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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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Trauma
Single-player alternative to Retention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.
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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.