Single-player games like The Manaworks
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Manaworks, 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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MineMergeMatic
Single-player alternative to The Manaworks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Manaworks.
Mine, merge, and automate! Combine ores into valuable resources, build compact production chains, unlock powerful machinery, and expand your grid into a bustling mining factory.
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Desktop Factory
Single-player alternative to The Manaworks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Manaworks.
Drill deep while you work or game in a zero-stress factory builder for the side of your screen or second monitor. Power your drill, unlock alternate building shapes, and harvest the planet’s core to unlock alternate building shapes for future runs. The. Factory. Must. Grow.
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Nightwater
Single-player alternative to The Manaworks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Manaworks.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
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Idøle
Single-player alternative to The Manaworks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Manaworks.
Idøle is a casual, open puzzle building game with a dark turn. Take the lead of a cult and perform rituals to gain ever-greater esoteric powers from a strange meteor that fell from the sky. Is it truely a Blessing ?
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Marketfield Idle
Single-player alternative to The Manaworks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Manaworks.
Marketfield Idle is all about growing crops, selling goods, cooking recipes, automating production, and prestige into stronger runs in a cozy incremental farming game with 1200+ upgrades, strategy paths, and lots of synergies to discover.
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Hexamental: Hexagonal Incremental
Single-player alternative to The Manaworks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Manaworks.
An incremental game about symmetry. Build marble runs, unlock hexes, and create functional mandalas. Nothing is final - reshape patterns, guide flow, and watch beauty emerge as numbers grow.
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Kibble Cats
Single-player alternative to The Manaworks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Manaworks.
Kibble Cats is a cozy, short incremental game with a definite ending. Rebuild an ancient cat village around a buried Pawbelisk. Hire cats, unlock buildings and reach milestones as a thread emerges connecting it all to something greater. A force stirs within this village, and it dreams a Great Dream.
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Farming & Supermarket: Clicker
Single-player alternative to The Manaworks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with The Manaworks.
Click, harvest, and build your own retail empire! In Farming & Supermarket: Clicker, process raw crops into valuable goods, design your store, and sell to customers. Start with a simple click and grow into a massive supermarket tycoon!