Single-player games like Make it indie!
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Make it indie!, 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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Death and Taxes
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Unemployment Simulator 2018
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.
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Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
As Cat Island’s newest arrival, it’s not long before you realise something’s seriously amiss, or should we say… amorous! A blend of mystery, intrigue and wickedly black humour, will you discover your Purrfect Date before it’s too late? Remember, curiosity killed the cat...
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Anxiety Puppy
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
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The Magic Circle
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?
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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
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Mosaic
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.
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Retention
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Make it indie!.
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
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Bacteria
Single-player alternative to Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Make it indie!.
'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 Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Make it indie!.
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 Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Make it indie!.
'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 Make it indie! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Make it indie!.
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.