Single-player games like Tethered
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Tethered, 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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Deisim
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tethered.
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
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Townsmen VR
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tethered.
Townsmen VR uses the exciting possibilities of virtual reality to further enhance the classic city building game with entirely new gameplay experiences and interactive mechanics. It combines elements of a God-game simulation and a classic building game with the interactive possibilities of VR.
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Driftland: The Magic Revival
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tethered.
After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!
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Cosmic Trip
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tethered.
Cosmic Trip is an award-winning real-time strategy VR game. Build a base, command a flying drone army, and attack/defend hostile enemies on strange alien planets.
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HUMANITY
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tethered.
A unique blend of puzzle-solving and action-platforming. Play a lone Shiba Inu charged with commanding massive, marching crowds to the goal in Story Mode, or create your own via the in-game Stage Creator!
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Skyworld
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tethered.
Claim command over the VR battlefield! Skyworld puts you at the helm of a kingdom at war in VR. Put the power of your own full army – even dragons – at your fingertips, conquer all Skyworlds in a royal campaign, and wage war against friends online. This is wargaming as it was meant to be played.
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From Dust
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
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AirMech Command
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tethered.
AirMech Command is the definitive Action/RTS experience in VR. With all new tactical room-space controls AND ground-level flight controls, you can command troops and units from orbit, or grab the stick and pilot your AirMech directly. Lots of mechs, units, and unlockable vanity items--no microtrans!
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tethered.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
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Populous™: The Beginning
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tethered.
In the third part of the Populous series, you control your shaman and the tribe of her followers in a difficult quest to conquer all 25 planets of a star system and ascend to godhood.
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Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tethered.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
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Populous™
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tethered.
Move mountains, part the seas, and lead mortal armies to victory in Populous. Take on the powers of a mighty deity and battle for supremacy against an enemy god, using thoughtful strategy to shape the isometric world and the fate of its people.
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Save the settlers
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tethered.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tethered.
Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!
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Overcooked
Single-player alternative to Tethered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tethered.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.