Single-player games like The Swindle
Below are 14 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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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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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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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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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Swindle.
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...
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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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Volume
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Swindle.
Pure stealth action and infinite level creation from the award-winning studio behind Thomas Was Alone. Enter the Volume to halt Gisborne Industries' corruption and train the masses to rob from the rich.
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Ironcast
Single-player alternative to The Swindle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Swindle.
Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite.
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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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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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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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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.