Single-player games like Budget Cuts
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Budget Cuts, 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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Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Budget Cuts.
Built from the ground-up for Virtual Reality, Budget Cuts 2 is an action-adventure stealth game where you zip, sneak, and stab your way through enemy-filled offices, trains, warehouses, and skyscrapers to take down the evil efficiency robots at TransCorp.
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Half-Life: Alyx
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Budget Cuts.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
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Raw Data
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Budget Cuts.
Built from the ground up for VR, Raw Data’s action gameplay, intuitive controls, challenging enemies, and sci-fi atmosphere will completely immerse you within the surreal world of Eden Corp. Go solo or team up and become the adrenaline-charged heroes of your own futuristic technothriller.
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SUPERHOT VR
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Budget Cuts.
Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...
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Job Simulator
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Budget Cuts.
In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Budget Cuts.
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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Arizona Sunshine®
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Budget Cuts.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
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Propagation: Paradise Hotel
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Budget Cuts.
Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Budget Cuts.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Garden of the Sea (VR)
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Budget Cuts.
You wake up on a small island in a magical world. Grow your garden, nurture local creatures, furnish your home or adventure across the seas to explore more islands and gather new resources. This world is for you.
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Crossings
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Budget Cuts.
Explore and Fight your way through an ever-changing world in a quest for vengeance and survival in an epic Adventure through the Norse afterlife. Meet fellow lost souls in seamless and wordless VR Co-op as you Block, Dodge, Strike and Power your way through Trolls, Draugr and other dark beings.
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Garden of the Sea
Single-player alternative to Budget Cuts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Budget Cuts.
A chilled-out life sim where you play, craft, and explore across magical islands. Build a house, grow a garden, nurture animals, adventure across the surrounding ocean, and make yourself at home!