Single-player games like PLAYBACK
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to PLAYBACK, 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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to PLAYBACK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PLAYBACK.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to PLAYBACK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PLAYBACK.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to PLAYBACK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PLAYBACK.
Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to PLAYBACK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PLAYBACK.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to PLAYBACK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PLAYBACK.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Divinity: Original Sin (Classic)
Single-player alternative to PLAYBACK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PLAYBACK.
Gather your party and get ready for a new, back-to-the-roots RPG adventure! Discuss your decisions with companions; fight foes in turn-based combat; explore an open world and interact with everything and everyone you see. Join up with a friend to play online in co-op and make your own adventures with the powerful RPG toolkit.
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Orcs Must Die! 2
Single-player alternative to PLAYBACK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PLAYBACK.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to PLAYBACK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with PLAYBACK.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!