Single-player games like Dog in the Machine
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Dog in the Machine, 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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Fire Burning City
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dog in the Machine.
Turn-Based + Survivor-Like?Play as a agent in a burning cyberpunk city! Strategize grid-by-grid, unleash skills to clear waves of enemies, and survive escalating challenges. Uncover secrets behind the chaos with simple, tactical moves. Can you outsmart the flames?
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CUEQUENCE
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
CUEQUENCE is a single-player roguelite billiards card battler set in Q-LAND. Aim with precision, build your deck, unlock powerful cues, and use magical cards to control the table.
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Terminal Warfare
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Terminal Warfare is a cyberpunk deckbuilding roguelike where you breach corporate networks in turn-based hack battles. Queue exploit cards, manage bandwidth and trace, earn creds, build your deck, and craft cyberdeck upgrades to take down tougher AI defenses.
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NeoRunners
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
NeoRunners is a playable cyberpunk comic and roguelite deckbuilder. Combine 🔥 Burn, ⚡ Volt, and 💧 Flow into explosive reactions, then build relationships that unlock new cards, modifications, services, and story paths.
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Borrow or Rob
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
The Pantheon sends armies back from the future; humanity has never won. Now you fight backwards too. Two agents: one fights Phase 1 forward, the other refights it in reverse, where your past agent returns as a hologram to strike with you: the TEMPORAL PINCER. A retro future roguelike deckbuilder.
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Cardstronaut
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dog in the Machine.
A unique spin on the deckbuilding genre, where you must play cards and use strategy and tactics to activate ceiling mounted flame throwers to defeat the aliens and find out the truth
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Cybrogue
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Cybrogue is a Deck Building Roguelike where moment to moment gameplay is chess-like focused on calculations ahead.
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Husk Protocol
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
ATTENTION! HUSK PROTOCOL INITIATED! Prepare to engage in a challenging deck-driven mecha game. Synergise between powerful Husks, utilise a dynamic deck and avoid detection from the city’s mainframe as you infiltrate the machine-driven brutopolis of Aeterna.
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Post Human W.A.R
Single-player alternative to Dog in the Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Post Human W.A.R is a turn-based tactical strategy game, set in an absurd post-apocalyptic world. At the dawn of our third millennium, mankind went extinct. Mutated animals, household robots converted for warfare, and monkeys in tracksuits battle it out to decide the fate of the human heritage!