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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Frog It Up
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Frog It Up is an incremental clicker game where you lure frogs to a pond and help them build their own cozy little city. As the pond grows, you’ll decide which upgrades to unlock, shaping how the city expands over time and steering progress in the direction you prefer.
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Pickochet
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Pickochet is a short, incremental mining game where you mine ore using bouncy ricocheting pickaxes, purchase upgrades, unlock abilities and discover new mining sites.
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Pibcremental
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
A cozy, chaotic idle-incremental clicker about growing a civilisation of tiny creatures called Pibbles in a giant tree, set in a post-human world. Gather resources, build wacky structures and play mini-games to push your production to its absolute limits!
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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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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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Miracle Brave: Beast Defense Line
Single-player alternative to World's Greatest Author — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with World's Greatest Author.
Endless tides of beasts crash against your fortress, yet never breach your line. Fight alongside your brave companions, reap the invaders, and grow stronger with every battle. Rise to meet the next wave with greater might—reap, strengthen, reap again. The cycle never ends.
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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.