Single-player games like Degrowth
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Degrowth, 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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Retro Meadow
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
A pixel-art sandbox where you design infinite maps. Build your perfect world with retro designs. No simulation, no action - just cozy construction. What unique worlds will you create with cute pixels? Turn your visions into peaceful creations.
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Idle Iktah
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
Idle Iktah is a game about leveling up in the Pacific Northwest. It features local plants and animals, 18 skills, 5+ minigames, items affected by the phase of the moon, and even a real-time Oregon coast tide tracker. If you like idle RPGs, give this one a shot!
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Tiny Monster Village
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
In this cozy village simulation game, you'll help the minions create a unique village and experience a relaxing pastoral life: growing crops, fishing, exploring treasures, and more.
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Quest Industries
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
Mine resources, build a factory, hire goblins, launch a space rocket. A short and satisfying factory builder about turning a one-goblin operation into a sprawling industrial empire.
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CityZen
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
CityZen is a game about building small cities without stressful mechanics like confusing traffic systems, unexpected disasters or constraining resource management.
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Defrag Incremental
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
A retro incremental where you optimize messy disks, choose the right algorithm, manage heat and wear, make a living from each job, and reboot for permanent BIOS upgrades.
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Incraiders
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
Incraiders is an active incremental game where you get energy from fallen Invaders to become a cross-dimensional guardian of the cosmos.
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Hearth and Hamlet
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Degrowth.
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
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Stella Pastoris
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
Shepherd the last remnants of the Malthusian monks marooned on Proxima Centauri B. As a mechanical saint, will you delve into forbidden means to save your people or allow them to go quietly into the night? Set up production chains to spend limited resources to save as many as you can.
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Xenocide
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Preserve the hierarchy of humanity's distant mechanical children by cleansing the galaxy in this transhumanist turn-based tactical tale. Capture factories from unworthy machines and claim the holy words to access the tomb of the Man the All-Maker.
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Unearth
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
Dig for the bones of your creators in this mashup of Bomberman, Digdug, and Lemmings.
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Search for Sol
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The children of long-extinct humanity desperately search for the legendary artifact system of Sol. Search for Sol is a sci-fi 4X in the tradition of Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion, and Star Traders. Control Sol for 50 years to ascend to flesh once again.
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Gulf Strike
Single-player alternative to Degrowth — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Gulf Strike is a top-down helicopter shooter from 1991. A rogue nation is threatening the oil industry in the middle east! Complete the 6 sandbox campaigns by destroying enemy units while searching for supplies. It's time for another strike in the desert!