Single-player games like Pulse Arms
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Pulse Arms, 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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Fables of the Kingdom 6
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pulse Arms.
Fables of the Kingdom 6 is a new chapter in this fairy-tale time management strategy. Manage resources, construct forts, and command classic heroes, defeat the Queen of the Underworld, and stop your sworn enemy!
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Fables of the Kingdom 4
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Pulse Arms.
Fables of the Kingdom 4 is a new chapter in the fairy-tale time-management strategy series. Manage resources, construct buildings, use new items and spells to reach Tartarus, and unlock the secret of a hidden threat to the kingdom!
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Not A Bot
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pulse Arms.
Prove you are not a bot in a short, chaotic puzzle game packed with annoying CAPTCHA-inspired minigames, tricky inputs, and deliberately frustrating challenges.
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Periapsis: Gravity Slingshot
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pulse Arms.
Lead humanity’s final journey beyond Earth. Launch ships, harness gravity slingshots, and explore distant star systems to make humanity multi-planetary.
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Agent Higgs 2
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pulse Arms.
Help Agent Higgs hide from the scientists in this puzzle game that involves all the physics of the universe. It's the world's smallest game of hide-and-seek, with the biggest stakes possible.
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Break the Piñatas
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pulse Arms.
An incremental game where the goal is to smash 1,000 piñatas! Earn candy, buy upgrades, and unlock unique skills to become the strongest. So, are we stopping at the last piñata?
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Chief? About That File...
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pulse Arms.
Step into an atmospheric 1990s police archive. Inspect, classify, and organize 3,360 unique criminal dossiers, crack safes, and uncover crime syndicates in this immersive first-person archival detective simulator.
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Attrition Line
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pulse Arms.
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
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DiceVenture Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Pulse Arms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pulse Arms.
DiceVenture Dungeon is a roguelike dice-building dungeon crawler. Choose your path, roll and reroll to unleash class skills, and craft your build with dice, relics, and traits. Take on dice challenges for greater rewards—every run brings new choices and combinations.