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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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    TNOC — Steam game cover

    TNOC

    Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Monitor State.

    A prequel set in the SYS.POST-FUTURE universe: a cyberpunk interface simulation where your decisions permanently shape the main game. As a covert operations director, dispatch agents, manage cyber defenses, and write the official canon through community-driven choices.

    AdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Trauma Record — Steam game cover

    Trauma Record

    Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.

    夜を歩く、血だまりの上を走る、永遠を断ち切る。 復讐のための翼は折れない。

    2026IndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG12.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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     KORA — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    201 - The Bad Number — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024IndieAdventure4.02 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PROJECT: MIRROR — Steam game cover

    PROJECT: MIRROR

    Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.

    PROJECT: MIRROR is a psychological horror narrative game about choices, scarcity, and AI observation. Answer ethical dilemmas, manage impossible systems, and watch your decisions become the basis for something that no longer asks permission.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Citizen Sleeper — Steam game cover

    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.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Silicon Dreams  |  cyberpunk interrogation — Steam game cover

    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?

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →