Single-player games like Not a Trolley Problem!
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Not a Trolley Problem!, 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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Sam, We Talked About This
Single-player alternative to Not a Trolley Problem! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Not a Trolley Problem!.
Every sentence, image and video on the internet will feed Sam's bottomless hunger! Train your models, grow your subscribers, buy new hardware and scrape even more data, all to build a super-duper artificial intelligence and leave every rival behind.
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Save the Game Devs
Single-player alternative to Not a Trolley Problem! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Not a Trolley Problem!.
Tap to drain an endless parade of overpaid CEOs, rescue laid-off game developers, and fund worker-owned indie studios. Upgrade from squeaky chairs to full cooperative ownership in a satirical incremental tycoon about rebuilding the games industry one severed golden parachute at a time.
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The Last Invention
Single-player alternative to Not a Trolley Problem! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Not a Trolley Problem!.
Start broke in a garage and race the tech giants to build AGI, the last invention, the one that could decide humanity's fate. Weather the management chaos, make the moral calls, and reach one of many different endings.
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IT Outage Desk
Single-player alternative to Not a Trolley Problem! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Not a Trolley Problem!.
Start as a help desk technician and build your way to the top. Resolve tickets, hire staff, automate your department, and survive the increasingly absurd chaos of corporate IT in this humorous incremental clicker.
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Lemonade Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Not a Trolley Problem! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Not a Trolley Problem!.
Make money selling lemonade. Optimise your product. Build your workforce. Sell, sell, sell. But money is not enough. Become president! Fuel climate change! Manipulate geopolitical events! Lemonade Apocalypse is an incremental game about business decisions that are technically legal.
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Slasher Manager
Single-player alternative to Not a Trolley Problem! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Not a Trolley Problem!.
Become the slasher in a darkly comic idle game set in a warped 1980s VHS nightmare. Hunt irritating young adults, earn Screams, buy brutal upgrades, defeat bosses, and turn every campout into your next absurd killing spree.
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Cat's Menace
Single-player alternative to Not a Trolley Problem! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Not a Trolley Problem!.
The dark narrative strategy game about cats slowly taking control of a city. Send your feline crew on dangerous missions, uncover their stories, and guide a rising revolt toward power.
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You must evolve it! Incremental
Single-player alternative to Not a Trolley Problem! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Not a Trolley Problem!.
You must evolve it! Incremental is an incremental game in which you collect resources, build structures and buy upgrades. Help a robot evolve a mysterious creature and discover the truth about the past.