Single-player games like Scrap Garden
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Scrap Garden, 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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A-RED Walking Robot
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Garden.
A-RED Walking Robot is a physics based toy robot simulator where you pilot tiny A-RED, a small clockwork operated robot that needs to overcome the trials it’s creator set in a workshop. A miniature nerve-wrecking/patience-proving journey where you are granted to fall… a lot.
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Scrap Garden - The Day Before
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Garden.
A new chapter of charming 3D platformer about the little rusty robot C4N who unwittingly finds himself in the midst of momentous events in Robo Land. In order to solve the new riddle, Canny will once again need to run and jump a lot, solve puzzles, and fight against enemies who are much bigger and stronger than he is.
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Skate Droid
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Garden.
Skate as a droid on a hoverboard through maps that don't look like anywhere else. Controls pulled from every skate game at once make tricks click on your first run, with animation and physics that stay believable no matter how ignorant your input.
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BirdBots
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Scrap Garden.
Master a unique skill-based flight system in a post-apocalyptic world. Play the story, survive procedurally generated tunnels, or compete with up to 6 players in multiplayer races and Last BirdBot Standing battles.
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BookyPets Legends
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Scrap Garden.
BookyPets Legends is a videogame of adventure, exploration and collecting, whose main objective is to encourage children from 7 to 12 years to read in an easy and funny way.
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Caravan SandWitch
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Garden.
Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.
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Grow Home
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Garden.
Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.
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APART
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Garden.
APART™ Is a third-person adventure game that follows an undead child with a severed arm companion whose bond seems to defy death. Survive and explore a world plunged into darkness after a tech breakthrough turns biological remains into humanity’s most valuable energy source.
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Trine 2: Complete Story
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Garden.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
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Mariole
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scrap Garden.
MARIOLE is a narrative management game inspired by the traditional culture of the south of France. Take on the role of a young travelling merchant named Mariole, as she journeys through medieval/post-collapse landscapes in search of her friend, a missing ‘Trobairitz’ (a troubadour woman).
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Super Mush Bros
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Scrap Garden.
SUPER MUSH BROS establishes itself as the most ABSURDLY ATROCIOUSLY AWESOME 2d platformer EVER!!! The game focuses on exploration throughout a plethora of vibrant and dull levels. Gameplay is seasoned with devilishly tricky bosses and moments when players can't figure where in the world they are.
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Withstand: Survival
Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Garden.
Play as journalist who arrived to unknown island to reveal all the mysteries and find information about secret government experiments. Explore beautiful and dangerous open world. Try to survive, fight enemies, craft new objects and complete quests to reveal what happened.