Single-player games like Shift Happens
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shift Happens, 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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Dystopicon
Single-player alternative to Shift Happens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Shift Happens.
An uncomfortable dystopian time-management game where your job is watching TV to earn money and buy services to survive after robots replace humans at work. Choose to be a good citizen or a rebel. But beware! Curiosity has a price in this dystopian life simulator.
- 2
Blêktre 2081
Single-player alternative to Shift Happens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shift Happens.
Blêktre 2081 is a dystopian adventure set in a turbo-capitalist city where players mess with the economy, the rules, and each other.
- 3
Definitely A Unicorn
Single-player alternative to Shift Happens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shift Happens.
A co-op startup management sim where you make hard decisions, argue over priorities, manage chaos, and deal with deadlines, burnout, investors, and constant pressure. Failure is expected — and every disaster is wrapped in satire and dark humor.
- 4
The Call Centre
Single-player alternative to Shift Happens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shift Happens.
Do you have what it takes to work at a call centre?
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Trolley Problem, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Shift Happens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shift Happens.
Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.
- 6
Super-Patriota Simulator
Single-player alternative to Shift Happens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Shift Happens.
Attention! In 72 hours something very important will happen, stay in the streets, do your part and wait for the armed forces! For the future of the country and for the future of your children! The Super-Patriot is coming!
- 7
CUCKOLD SIMULATOR: Life as a Beta Male Cuck
Single-player alternative to Shift Happens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Shift Happens.
CUCKOLD SIMULATOR, the exciting new game where you play as Cuckold (that is his name) in his day-to-day life. Work hard, give all your money to the bull, and be verbally abused by your fat wife.
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G.O.P.O.T.A 2
Single-player alternative to Shift Happens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Shift Happens.
Don't you keep the kid's word?!