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
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.
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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。
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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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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.
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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?