Single-player games like Fred's Idle Garden
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Fred's Idle Garden, 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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Tiny Farmie
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
An ultra-tiny idle farming simulation you can place anywhere on your desktop. Start your cozy farming life anytime.
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Quackyard
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
A cozy incremental farming sim about helping your duck friend clean out their backyard. Dig, mine and farm your way to clearing up the space so that a tea party with friends can be hosted.
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Sprout's Meadow
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Manage a team of adorable Sproutlings in this cozy farming adventure! Assign tasks, automate chores, and turn forgotten land into a lively home. Grow crops, raise animals, and craft goods, then take to the skies in your hot air balloon to trade. Watch your little farm come alive!
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Corner Market
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A relaxing idle market simulator that sits at the corner of your screen while you do other things.
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HarvestCo.
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
HarvestCo is a farming incremental idle game where a small field turns into an increasingly efficient money-making machine. Harvest crops, buy upgrades, grow passive income, automate production, and discover rare golden crops and strange field events.
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Petunia's Purgatory
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your desktop.
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Happy Roots
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Grow a farm you actually work. Sow by hand or by seed drill, harvest with a sickle or a combine, raise chickens, cows and sheep, run mills and bakeries, set your own prices at the roadside stand, and grow one bare plot into a whole farm village.
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Mana Roots
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An idle-farming game where you use magic to handle the work. Plant, expand and automate with the help of animals. All from the bottom of your screen
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Snake vs Snake
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Snake vs Snake is a fast paced snake game with an insane battle mode with power-ups and much more. Inspired by old classical Snake but with a much faster arcade pace and local multiplayer support.
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Total Arcade Racing
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Total Arcade Racing is a fun 2D top-down arcade racing game where you zip around closed circuits. Play solo or with up to 8 friends on the same screen in various game modes. This game is a tribute to old school arcade racing games like Super Sprint, Slicks 'n' Slide and Super Cars.
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Super Jumpy Ball
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A simple & fun 2D platform game for 1-8 players, inspired by retro platformers. Faced with clever level design and challenging obstacles, players must find their way through each level while bouncing, wall jumping, avoiding spikes and spike balls.
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Pixel Driver
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
🚗 Fast paced infinite driving in heavy traffic 🚙
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Traffic Race 3D 2
Single-player alternative to Fred's Idle Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Traffic Race 3D 2 is a tribute to retro racing, race solo or split screen with a friend. Prove that you are an awesome driver by reaching the 1st place on the online leaderboards 🏆