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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 — Steam game cover

    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!

    2015IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    March of Industry: Very Capitalist Factory Simulator Entertainments — Steam game cover

    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!

    2015ActionSportsStrategy9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ironclad Tactics — Steam game cover

    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!

    2013StrategyIndieCasual3.74 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    To Be or Not To Be — Steam game cover

    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!

    2015IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    HACK_IT — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie13.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PONCHO — Steam game cover

    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?

    2015ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    You Must Build A Boat — Steam game cover

    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

    2015ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dungeon Hearts — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
8 Single-Player Games Like The BoX (2026) · imho.run