Single-player games like Miseria
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Miseria, 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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Cradle of the Dark Brood
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Miseria.
A dark fantasy incremental breeding game where you cultivate a monstrous brood, inherit stronger traits, unlock mutations and automation, then send your evolving creatures into conquest across a hostile corpse-world.
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Bones and Coins
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Miseria.
An incremental auto battler dungeon crawler where you build a synergized hero party to slay enemies and loot items. Unlock weapons with unique attack styles. Gear up your hero team and explore new dungeon rooms filled with enemies and legendary drops.
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Knightfall Idle
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Miseria.
Developed by Gibber, Knightfall Idle is a free to play, infinite-progression idle game. Master a living economy through a player-driven Auction House while gathering resources, fighting enemies, farming, trading, and managing your kingdom.
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Mushi
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Miseria.
Mushi is a single-player idle/incremental RPG. Level up, gather loot and explore a rich fantasy world.
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Brainrotting
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Miseria.
Brainrotting is an incremental game about doomscrolling or solving minigames, getting upgrades and eventually automating your dopamine generation.
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Dark Web
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Miseria.
Start a cartel from your basement in this dark web incremental sim. Grow weed, sell exotic tigers, hire hitmen, and scam sweet, innocent old ladies. Trade meme coins, gamble crypto on blackjack, outsmart the Feds, sell stolen data, and blackmail grannies to bake weed brownies for your empire!
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Buerokratie Idler: Germany
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Miseria.
Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine. A satirical idle/clicker game about fictional German-style administration - absolutely not official.
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Master Healer Kale with useless party
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Miseria.
A short incremental game where you play as a Healer in a party. Your main job is to keep your party alive. Upgrade 200+ skills in a skill tree, from healing to party damage. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
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Woodboy
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Miseria.
You have five days to save everyone!
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Whitehaven
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Uncover the mysteries of Whitehaven Orphanage in this first-person psychological horror game. Explore the place, collect clues and put the pieces together to find out what happened years ago as you delve deep into your mind.
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Evergreen - Mountain Life Simulator
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Miseria.
Evergreen is a simulation game about leaving the stress of the city behind and starting a new life in a mountain valley.
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BEASTWATCH: Meat & Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Beastwatch is a retro-style horror shooter in which you play a security guard working his first night in a slaughterhouse.
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Crack it Up!
Single-player alternative to Miseria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Miseria.
Crack it Up! is a trading card collecting game. Order booster packs from your 90s computer, crack them up, sell your duplicates and rarest cards for profit and complete your collections!