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Single-player games like Scrap Garden

Below are 11 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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Scrap Garden - The Day Before — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Caravan SandWitch — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grow Home — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    APART — Steam game cover

    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.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grow Up — Steam game cover

    Grow Up

    Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Garden.

    Leaping from mind-boggling heights, bouncing off Champolines, soaring inches from floating islands, BUD can do it all - that look of mild terror, that’s his daredevil face. Help the adorable little robot collect MOM’s scattered ship parts and return them to the moon.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Dragon Apprentice — Steam game cover

    The Dragon Apprentice

    Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Garden.

    Journey through dungeons and dangers – grow in power as you fight tooth n’ claw to your last flaming breath through 40 procedurally generated levels! Harness the power of Rune Magic to decimate your foes, and take to the air to evade enemies and launch devastating aerial attacks!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I Am Mouse — Steam game cover

    I Am Mouse

    Single-player alternative to Scrap Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Garden.

    Step into the paws of a tiny mouse in I Am Mouse, a charming third-person adventure where you create your own path. Fight, sneak, or explore freely through rich environments full of choices, secrets, and alternate routes.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Trine 2: Complete Story — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super Mush Bros — Steam game cover

    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.

    AdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Withstand: Survival — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →