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Single-player games like Water Boiling Simulator

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Water Boiling Simulator, 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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    The Escape to the Afterlife — Steam game cover

    The Escape to the Afterlife

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Water Boiling Simulator.

    The Escape to the Afterlife is a short horror experience (about 1 hour) where a deceased protagonist searches for a path to the afterlife.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cave Of Horrors — Steam game cover

    Cave Of Horrors

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Water Boiling Simulator.

    Explore and discover the secrets of a non-linear cave. Document everything you find in your logbook. You cannot return unless you find every single information about every monster, plant, ore and point of interest.

    2025ActionStrategyAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    4 Months of You — Steam game cover

    4 Months of You

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Water Boiling Simulator.

    Some memories should be left in the past. A first-person psychological horror game where you explore a slow-paced atmospheric world with graphics inspired by the PS1 era.

    2021Indie6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Silent Sonata — Steam game cover

    Silent Sonata

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Water Boiling Simulator.

    Dive into a chilling symphony of horror & harmony. Solve ancient mysteries, wield enchanted instruments & face nightmarish foes. Will you compose your escape, or succumb to the melodies? Players control a musician who's experiencing more than just stage-fright in this psychedelic thriller

    2024ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Krampus is Home — Steam game cover

    Krampus is Home

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Water Boiling Simulator.

    Sebastian is a teenager who is waiting for his parents to come back home on a cold Christmas night. Soon he realizes that there is something evil lurking around. Experience Sebastian 's journey into a surreal world like no other.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie3.29 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition — Steam game cover

    Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Water Boiling Simulator.

    Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Five Nights at Freddy's 4 — Steam game cover

    Five Nights at Freddy's 4

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Water Boiling Simulator.

    In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Light Keeps Us Safe — Steam game cover

    The Light Keeps Us Safe

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Water Boiling Simulator.

    THE LIGHT KEEPS US SAFE is a procedurally-generated apocalypse in which only The Light can save us. Use stealth and evasion to avoid terrifying machines that patrol the desolate world, and employ the powers of Light to unpick their deadly traps.

    2019ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SiliCorp Computers — Steam game cover

    SiliCorp Computers

    Single-player alternative to Water Boiling Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Water Boiling Simulator.

    Introducing hard-working, friendly software that everyone will use: SiliCorp Computers is proud to present our friendliest operating system yet! It almost seems like it came from another reality!

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →