Single-player games like The BoX
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The BoX, 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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Pixel Dungeon
Single-player alternative to The BoX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The BoX.
Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!
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March of Industry: Very Capitalist Factory Simulator Entertainments
Single-player alternative to The BoX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The BoX.
Comrade, craft our glorious country's natural resources into advanced materials. Discover crafting recipes to create powerful weapons and then sell them. Automate your weapons factory and create many capitalist profits!
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Ironclad Tactics
Single-player alternative to The BoX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The BoX.
Ironclad Tactics is a fast-paced, card-based tactics game set in an alternate history Civil War - with steam-powered military robots!
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To Be or Not To Be
Single-player alternative to The BoX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The BoX.
Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!
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HACK_IT
Single-player alternative to The BoX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The BoX.
HACK_IT presents players with a fully immersive hacking experience, you’ll meet characters and find out things you never imagined. Including interactive apps that will give you the power to shutdown servers and retrieve passwords.
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PONCHO
Single-player alternative to The BoX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The BoX.
A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?
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You Must Build A Boat
Single-player alternative to The BoX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The BoX.
You Must Build A Boat is the sequel to the award winning "10000000". Travel the world, run procedurally generated dungeons finding artifacts, capturing monsters and recruiting crew for your boat
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Dungeon Hearts
Single-player alternative to The BoX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The BoX.
Dungeon Hearts fuses the strategy and pattern matching of puzzle games with the kinetic pace of action games. Align magical runes as they flow along the Fatestream to attack, defend, and conjure magic in frenetic battles against a bestiary of fantastic creatures out to use those same runes against you.