Single-player games like Screen Survivors
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Screen Survivors, 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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Idle Survivor
Single-player alternative to Screen Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Screen Survivors.
Your ship is stranded and cannot move. Something out here has woken up, and it breeds faster than you can kill it. All you can do is upgrade your arsenal and fight back, wave after wave, for as long as you can hold.
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Ogre Stampede
Single-player alternative to Screen Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Screen Survivors.
Ogre Stampede is a physics-based bullet heaven with incremental upgrades set in a chaotic mosh pit. Waves of hopelessly stupid trolls and ogres are running wild and pushing and shoving each other around. Level up your strength and fight to be the last one standing and become the new chieftain!
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Rejected Draft
Single-player alternative to Screen Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screen Survivors.
You are a flawed doodle thrown in the trash. Battle rival sketches in an idle climb for revenge. Every enemy is drawn by community artists, with alternate versions and direct credits. In an unusual twist on builds, choose which enemies appear in your world, then defeat them to absorb their powers.
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Mine or Burn
Single-player alternative to Screen Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screen Survivors.
Start with a basic mining ship and snowball into an asteroid-crushing powerhouse in this incremental bullet hell roguelite. Mine asteroids, battle rival miners, stack upgrades, create powerful builds, and survive escalating threats across dangerous star systems.
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Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector
Single-player alternative to Screen Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Screen Survivors.
Work, browse, or play other games while hatching eggs in the background! Collect 300+ pets, unlock powerful upgrades, and build your battle team. Or Sell/Buy from the Steam Community Market.
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Slime Trader
Single-player alternative to Screen Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screen Survivors.
Summon, place, and merge slimes to stop the larvae pouring from the pen. Collect 111 slimes across 12 grades from F to XXX, grow through runes and rebirths, trade eligible Steam Inventory items, and climb the stage leaderboard in this casual pixel-art horde defense game.
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Loop Tower
Single-player alternative to Screen Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Loop Tower tells the story of adventurers climbing an endless tower. Place it on a corner of your desktop and help them continue their ascent. Experience a fresh blend of desktop idle gameplay + roguelike + RPG right now!
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Swarm Survivor: Endless Siege
Single-player alternative to Screen Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Swarm Survivors: Endless Siege is a light roguelike bullet-hell idle shooter. You play as the last survivor of the Swarm, fighting to stay alive under the endless siege of alien fleets. Build overwhelming power and face wave after wave of relentless challenges.