Single-player games like The Penguin Factory
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Penguin Factory, 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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The Revenant Prince
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
After gaining the ability to control time, Troy sets off on an adventure, guided by a mysterious voice in an attempt to fulfill his long-time - potentially misleading destiny: saving the world! Kill or show mercy, the choice is yours. Your actions lead to certain consequences and outcomes that cannot be undone!
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Tooth and Tail
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
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Tumblestone
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
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Train Valley
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
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On A Roll 3D
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Penguin Factory.
On A Roll 3D is a fast, colourful 3D platform game. Roll your way through 24 huge levels across six different themes and be prepared to take on spikes, mines, dynamite, conveyor belts, springs, switches, doors, bumpers, lasers, saws, fire, ice, water, electricity, trapdoors and much much more.
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The Food Run
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
The Food Run is a colourful, classic puzzle game with a few tasty twists. The aim is simple - just eat everything you can see on the screen! Enjoy 64 unique puzzles across eight themes. Can you get three stars on them all?!
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The Wizards Who Fell In A Hole
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Penguin Factory.
The Wizards Who Fell In A Hole is a one- or two-player platform game in which each player controls a wizard who can jump and shoot at a variety of monsters, with the aim being to kill all monsters on a level before progressing.
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Square Route
Single-player alternative to The Penguin Factory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Penguin Factory.
Square Route is an classic puzzle game in which you modify the terrain by adding and removing platforms and placing tools to create a safe Route for the Squares to get to their targets. With 120 addictive levels!