Single-player games like Remain At Your Desk
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Remain At Your Desk, 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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O.R.B.S.
Single-player alternative to Remain At Your Desk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Remain At Your Desk.
A wizard finds a computer terminal inside his scrying orb. Tend your tower through a fantasy command line — brew, research, scry, ward — then write spells that teach the orb to do it for you. Prepare yourself for incursions by other wizards.
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FORK BOMB: A Programming Game
Single-player alternative to Remain At Your Desk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Remain At Your Desk.
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
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EchoLink: Recursion
Single-player alternative to Remain At Your Desk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Remain At Your Desk.
EchoLink: Recursion is an active incremental hacking simulation spanning 1990s dial-up to 2150s megacities. Hack through time by infiltrating networks, building proxy chains, and automating routines. Every reset reboots you with exponential upgrades. Grow a skill tree and rewrite history.
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Nullsec: Unauthorized Access
Single-player alternative to Remain At Your Desk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Remain At Your Desk.
A hacking sandbox with its own scripting language. Break into a network of thousands of machines, take what you find and sell it and write scripts to do the work for you. Every move leaves a trace, so stay unseen or clean up after yourself.
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Bitburner
Single-player alternative to Remain At Your Desk — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
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Blackdoor
Single-player alternative to Remain At Your Desk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Remain At Your Desk.
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts - time to rewrite them. Hack servers by writing actual code in a custom scripting language: probe ports, crack passwords, steal data, and get out before the trace completes. The better your code, the better you hack.
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Man in the Mocha
Single-player alternative to Remain At Your Desk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Remain At Your Desk.
An active incremental game where you own a coffee shop, but your hidden agenda is to hack the customers who connect to your WiFi. Buy upgrades and grow your business!
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Upload Labs
Single-player alternative to Remain At Your Desk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Remain At Your Desk.
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect