Single-player games like The Swindle
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The Swindle, 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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Contract Work
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Contract Work is a cyberpunk action rogue-like where you infiltrate high-rises to steal corporate secrets. Do you go in guns blazing or take a more stealthy approach? Every contract earns you credits which you use to buy new cybernetic enhancements and modifications for your next mission.
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ENERGY SURVIVORS
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
In Energy Survivors, you play as a mercenary in a third-person shooter roguelite game. Your mission is to invade a hostile planet in search of its energy source. You can choose from a variety of upgrades to create unique and powerful builds that can change the course of the game.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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Beast Agenda 2030
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Inspired by Escape From New York, Shadowrun SNES and Genesis, Deus Ex and H.P. Lovecraft, Beast Agenda 2030 is a Stealth, Gadgets and Hacking focused Action RPG with optional permadeath that encourages you to use your brain to complete missions in procedurally generated city districts.
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Thief
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Swindle.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
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The Masterplan
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Tactical squad-based heist game set in 1970s. The 2D top-down view gives you a great overview of what's happening at any given moment, allowing you to be a real criminal mastermind. Can you pull off the greatest heist in the history of mankind?
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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Swindle.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Lair of the Clockwork God
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one! Join adventurer Ben and wannabe indie darling Dan in a race against time to stop all the Apocalypses happening at the same time.
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Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!
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Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!
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Behold the Kickmen
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
BEHOLD THE KICKMEN is a football game made by someone who has no understanding of, or interest in, what is affectionately known as "The Wonderful Game". Start at the bottom of the Big Boring Football Spreadsheet and grind your way up to become the best at the football anyone's ever seen.
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Earth Must Die
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Swindle.
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.
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Devil's Kiss
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Swindle.
Find out how it all started in this enticing Visual Novel prequel for "Lair of the Clockwork God". Join heroes Dan and Ben as they navigate a rough first school day stuffed with flirting, demons, a vast conspiracy and all manner of compromising personal information.