Single-player games like Pocket Boss
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Pocket Boss, 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
- 1
A stupid game about pouring drinks for the P.T.A.
Single-player alternative to Pocket Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Pocket Boss.
The P.T.A. (Parent Teacher's Association) is planning the Summer Fete but they need money to hire everything. Selflessly serve drinks and upsell the heck out of them to gain funds. Dig deep! It's for a good cause, after all.
- 2
Overcommit: Class Inheritance
Single-player alternative to Pocket Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Pocket Boss.
Manage chaos, people, and impossible expectations in a satirical corporate world. Turn stress into progress, survive absurd workflows, and keep your sanity intact. How much can you handle before everything falls apart?
- 3
Be kinder and, like, be a Rewinder, dude!
Single-player alternative to Pocket Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pocket Boss.
1995, Summer. "Get a job or you're joining the military" shouts your dad. Get your ticket to an incremental game where you'll rewind, loan, buy tapes, buy rewinders, buy food, move to better locations, hire your mates and make a mint at Planet Rewind! Video tape rentals will be around forever!
- 4
OurLife
Single-player alternative to Pocket Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pocket Boss.
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing. Live any life, make any choice: OurLife.
- 5
Go to IT
Single-player alternative to Pocket Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pocket Boss.
Have you ever wanted to run your own software company? Go to IT is a business simulation game with a multitude of parameters to manage and meaningful choices to enjoy. Build your company and bring it to the top, surviving almost 30 years of software industry ups and downs.
- 6
Love and Bread
Single-player alternative to Pocket Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pocket Boss.
Homeless, jobless, and buried in debt, rebuild your life in Moonville. Farm and cook custom meals, juggle your physical and mental needs, work jobs or launch your own business, and win over the town's people and cats along the way.
- 7
Octal: Of Course They Are Linked
Single-player alternative to Pocket Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pocket Boss.
A strategy game about correlations and bending reality for profit. You’re hired to increase a company’s sales—by any means necessary. Link variables together and transform changes in the world into revenue. More penguins? Somehow, that means higher sales. Don’t question it. Optimize it.
- 8
Trolley Problem, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Pocket Boss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pocket Boss.
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.