Single-player games like TNOC
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to TNOC, 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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Monitor State
Single-player alternative to TNOC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with TNOC.
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
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HackMeNow
Single-player alternative to TNOC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with TNOC.
A terminal-style hacking puzzle game where every command matters. Investigate logs, decode secrets, avoid traps, and uncover the rogue system watching from behind the screen.
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NULL TRACE
Single-player alternative to TNOC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with TNOC.
Hack into digital systems, uncover hidden secrets, and reveal the truth behind a mysterious experiment in this atmospheric sci-fi terminal hacking simulator.
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Tracked
Single-player alternative to TNOC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with TNOC.
Tracked is a strategic hacker-heist game played through a fictional operating system. Analyze contracts, route through digital relays, and run tools on your own rig. Manage resources and an active Trace—and disappear before the trail leads back to you.
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how to kill a fly [ H2KAF ]
Single-player alternative to TNOC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with TNOC.
You are a corporate flesh object with no way to speak on your own trying to pose as a human by mimicking what other people say. Serve the corporation that owns you, complete your assignment.
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Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
Single-player alternative to TNOC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with TNOC.
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to TNOC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TNOC.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to TNOC — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with TNOC.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.