Single-player games like Beholder
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Beholder, 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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Beholder 2
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
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Beholder 3
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.
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Mayor Quake
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
You're the new mayor of a dystopian city on the brink of a devastating earthquake. Review building records, make urban transformation decisions, and maintain public support despite political pressure. Manage the economy and make critical choices. Can you prepare your city before disaster strikes?
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Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
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Ministry of Truth: 1964
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder.
MINISTRY OF TRUTH: 1984 is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. Big Brother is watching you! This game is inspired by George Orwell’s classic novel.
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Corporate Entropy
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
Climb the ladder while burning it down. In this satirical management sim, you work for a corporation rolling out ARIA — an AI that's replacing your coworkers. Balance your performance cover against quiet sabotage, organize your resistance, and survive 8 quarters with your soul mostly intact.
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Cat's Vote
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
Balance happiness and survival in Cat's Vote, a whimsical pastel-colored resource management game where you juggle your family's needs and vote in unpredictable feline elections. Shape your story, customize your cat family, and decide if those campaign promises are worth the risk!
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Project HN
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
An administrative office in a fantasy world. Review documents from humans, elves, orcs, and beastfolk to uphold the republic's order. Follow the rules, or overlook suspicious files for personal gain? Every choice is yours. Heroines await after work. Your decisions shape the republic's future.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Papers, Please
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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Floor 13: Deep State
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder.
Floor 13: Deep State is a dynamically generated dystopian thriller, inspired by the 90’s classic Floor 13 and created by its original team. In a free society, citizens make their own decisions, can challenge authority, and are able to speak their truth. Your job is to put a stop to that.
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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beholder.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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Not Dying Today
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder.
Not dying today is a 2D side-scrolling action game. In 2030, the world has been taken over by zombies. With fire and blade, bullets and guns, you, captain Aiden, will do anything to protect the last human kind, anything, even turn into a zombie, using zombie power to kill zombies.
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Heart. Papers. Border.
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
Heart. Papers. Border. is an optimistic strategy game about travelling, freedom and changing the world!
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Pillars of Eternity
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.