Single-player games like World's Greatest Author
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to World's Greatest Author, 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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Kraken Cleaning
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
A cozy incremental game where you play as a Kraken wielding abyssal powers to clean the ocean.
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Cave Clicker
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Mine rocks to collect rare ores to become the richest Mole alive, and looking good while doing it too!
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Human-Powered World
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
An incremental game with a light tone and humor. Develop your colony, discover resources, build production, and unlock upgrades. Turn a lifeless planet into a thriving world and watch it transform step by step.
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Apple Picker
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Start with an apple tree, end with a multiverse turned to pulp in this creepy idle incremental game. Pick apples. Produce more apples. Cause the apple-fication of reality. Uncover the source of this all-consuming apple obsession. But whatever you do, (don't) shoot the unicorn.
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Flower Tower
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
A short, relaxing incremental game about growing flowers, where your garden quietly thrives and blooms on its own.
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Tiny Egg Clicker
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
An idle pet-collecting clicker game that keeps you company at the bottom of your screen. Click your egg to help it hatch. Grow your collection of pets to unlock upgrades and rarer eggs. Relax to chill Lofi music while you play at your own pace. Will you hatch the shiny variant of each pet?
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Wild Boar Digging
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
A small relaxing game where you control a wild boar collecting resources. Upgrade the attributes of you wild boar and find a diversity of interesting animal cards. You can even recruit bees to help you!
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Working Class Monsters
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Open packs. Collect monsters. Watch the gold pile up. A cozy incremental about a monster workforce - place goblins, undead, and abyssal horrors across tiles where the right neighbors mean bigger payouts. Grow your sleepy island into a gold printing empire and unlock hidden islands to settle on.
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After Hours
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Groundbreaking research is encrypted on a computer from the 80's. Look through the computer and search the internet to crack the encryption in this augmented reality puzzle game.
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Atom☭grad
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A linguistic detective game. Decrypt the Soviet computer to prevent total nuclear annihilation.