Single-player games like The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything, 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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How to Win: Season One
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
How to Win is an anarchic adventure/gaming experiment where players decide the rules. Whatever you decide, that’s what happens next in our story. No matter what chaos it creates. Play through all 5 chapters of Season 1, then send us your ideas for Season 2!
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Spud Customs
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Stamp visas. Launch missiles. Shape the fate of a potato nation. A 2-3 hour story with 8 endings, 5 minigames, and choices that actually matter. Process documents by day, uncover dark secrets by night. Will you follow orders or forge your own path? Free demo!
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Exit Liquidity: Wall Street Trading Sim
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You have a few dollars and a hunger for more. Navigate decades of economic booms, tech revolutions, and devastating crashes in this deep turn-based simulation. Will you build a legacy through meticulous analysis, or seize power through hostile takeovers and political shadow-play?
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Talk to Strangers
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.
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Super Real AI
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Welcome to Super Real AI, the ultimate AI Simulator where you are the intelligence. Judge, classify, and share your advice—but be careful, your answers for simple requests have super real consequences. Log in today and bring back the intelligence where it belongs: to humans.
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Ricky's Furry Duck Hunt
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Join Ricky as he hunts some ...peculiar... looking ducks in this arcade-style point-and-click game.
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Employee 925
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Employee 925 is a short psychological horror game about compliance and the quiet erosion of self in the workplace.
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Norman's Great Illusion
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
"Norman's Great Illusion" is a 2D pixel art visual novel in which you have to live a year as an engineer at the plant in the face of rising social tensions. Make difficult decisions, but keep in mind: you will have to pay for each choice
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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
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The Procession to Calvary
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.
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The Dig®
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash course toward Earth. Once the wayward asteroid is nuked into a safe orbit, a trio conducts a routine examination of the rocky surface. What they uncover is anything but routine.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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DIG THE GROUND
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
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Four Last Things
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
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Death of the Reprobate
Single-player alternative to The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
Explore a world built from the luscious landscapes, turbulent townscapes and preposterous portraits of real Renaissance paintings. Death of the Reprobate is a Rabelaisian adventure game from the creator of Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary.