Single-player games like SIDE EFFECTS
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to SIDE EFFECTS, 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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CloverPit
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!
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Fool's Trigger
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
Welcome to the table where the stakes are life. Fool’s Trigger is a tense blend of Russian roulette and a 6-player card game. Load your revolver, manipulate the cards, wager your lives, and dare to find out who will be the unluckiest today.
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A Game of D.I.C.E.
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
A tense dice duel in an elegant Art Deco world where luck and strategy decide who survives. Roll five dice and build winning hands inspired by poker. Use Gambits to flip the table in your favor. Outlast your rival: only one remains seated at the dinner table.
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The Whispering Bones
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
The Whispering Bones is a roguelike psychological horror where you gamble with a mysterious stranger in the depths of a nebulous wood. Roll dice with full physics simulation, unravel the hermit's secrets, make bets and win a chance for a better life.
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Death In Your Dice
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
Roll the dice… or cities die. Learn lethal rules, twist outcomes, accept the cost. One bad throw calls the bombs. Win to delay death. Lose to become a murderer. Every choice reshapes your ending. Fate is loaded. Your turn is encoded?
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Buckshot Roulette
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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Cup Or Die
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
Survive in a creepy bar playing beer pong against terrifying opponents in roguelite style. Throw the ball into cups with various effects, collect weird items and passive cards, choose doors, play mini-games. Miss a shot — drink. Every cup you drink can give a bonus or kill you.
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Bonesaw
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
Gamble your fingers against the devil and his bloodthirsty saw in this turn-based strategy game. Outsmart your opponent with special abilities, or test your luck as you defy the odds to escape eternal damnation!