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.
Investigate a corporate conspiracy, manage field agents, analyze classified documents, and defend critical infrastructure in a story-rich cyberpunk future where every decision reveals another piece of the truth.
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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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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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Quarantine Circular
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Monitor State.
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
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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!
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Uncover the Smoking Gun
Single-player alternative to Monitor State — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Monitor State.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?