Single-player games like Beholder
Below are 12 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: Conductor
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
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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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Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder.
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
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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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Not For Broadcast
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder.
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
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Organs Please
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder.
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
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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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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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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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Mainlining
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder.
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Single-player alternative to Beholder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beholder.
It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?