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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REGRET
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
REGRET is a game about dictatorship and trials. It’s a place where you and up to three friends compete in deadly elimination challenges — until only one remains. You’ll find yourself at the game table, where each round decides who stays… and who is gone for good.
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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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Downcast
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
Play Russian Roulette: you have 10 seconds to memorize where the bullets are in the cylinder. Keep track of the shots, disrupt your opponents’ plans with cards, and try not to forget where the next bullet is.
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Fuse or Lose
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
Fuse or Lose is a tense multiplayer bomb-passing game of deduction and betrayal. Poke at wires and switches, twist cryptic clues to your advantage, and shove the ticking device into someone else’s hands before it explodes.
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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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Rock, Paper, Revolver
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
A high-stakes survival simulator in a retro-noir setting. Here, a childhood game turns into a psychological showdown where the price of a mistake isn't a slap on the wrist, it's a bullet to the brain.
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Rock Paper Gamba!
Single-player alternative to SIDE EFFECTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SIDE EFFECTS.
You died, but the stakes are higher now. Face Kinger, master of the Gamble Lair, in a deadly game of Rock–Paper–Scissors where tokens are your life. Bet, survive, and bankrupt him before he bankrupts you.
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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.