Single-player games like Anomalous Cleaning Detail
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Anomalous Cleaning Detail, 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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Red Life
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
Red Life is a Soviet car-building survival game where you maintain, upgrade, and race your rusty project car! Earn money by chopping wood, working farms, and delivering goods, or skip the honest work and brew moonshine in your backyard instead!
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Aurenv - Audio Reactive 3D Environments
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
Aurenv is a music visualizer that takes it one step further by translating both stems and real-time audio into physical motion, dynamic lighting, and responsive elements within 3D environments.
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The Sweet Spot
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
The Sweet Spot is a cozy horror game where you work the last shift at an 80s ice cream shop. Make ice cream, serve customers and watch out for strange things.
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Still Rooms
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
A cozy, pixel-art decorating game where you design and furnish unique homes across 7 themed locations — from modern apartments and rustic houses to retro 80’s interiors, student rooms, rooftops, and even a spaceship.
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Roll for Order: Sort Every Set!
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
A cozy first-person sorting game set in a cluttered 1980s basement. Find thousands of scattered dice, identify their sets and return each one to the correct display. Play solo or in co-op, choose a fantasy class and unlock magical powers that make sorting easier.
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Welcome to Lightford
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
Investigate a supernatural conspiracy in a 90s town hiding something far worse than secrets. Travel between 1990 and its ruined 1995 future, photograph anomalies, decode entities, and survive a town that doesn't want you here. Think outside the box. Every problem has more than one solution.
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Eyes On You
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
A stealth social simulation game where you play as the hunter and the prey. Manipulate, befriend, or kill your romantic rivals as Yoshiko, a Machiavellian Yandere. Assassinate your designated targets as Yu, her senpai.
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Don't Go to the Bathroom
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
You woke up in grandma's house at midnight and need to reach the bathroom alone. Observe the hallway carefully. If something feels wrong, turn back immediately. If nothing changed... keep walking.
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SCP: Descent
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
Inspired by SCP-087, step into the shoes of an unfortunate student long before the stairwell became legend. Follow the clues left by those who came before, your only choice is to descend.
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Tempus Rail
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Trapped in the temporal loop, fight your way to the front of the train and destroy the engine before the day resets. Tempus Rail is a story rich, First-Person, Roguelike Deck-Builder set in the Wild West. Play to escape and uncover the mystery behind the train and its passengers.
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Grow On The Go
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
Care for your leafy friends in this cosy plant care sim and explore new locations from the comfort of your store window. Design your dream workshop and find the best companions for each of your pals.
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These Darker Tides
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
Welcome [EMPLOYEE] to your new job protecting Deep Sea Cables from creatures of the deep. We're not liable for loss of limbs, sanity, or life while on the job. Don't forget to keep your desk clean and your eyes on those cameras!
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Module Miner
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
Module Miner is a minimalist retro inspired idle mining game. Hover over blocks to break them, collect resources, and buy upgrades.
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SCP: Blink
Single-player alternative to Anomalous Cleaning Detail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Anomalous Cleaning Detail.
Uncover the origins of SCP-173 in the abandoned exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl. Told through the lens of found footage recordings, explore a hidden facility where Soviet secrets should have remained forgotten.