Single-player games like Monitor State
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Monitor State, 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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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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KORA
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.
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201 - The Bad Number
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
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Let Bions Be Bygones
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
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DIVINATION
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!