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Single-player games like The Last Invention

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Last Invention, 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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    Sam, We Talked About This — Steam game cover

    Sam, We Talked About This

    Single-player alternative to The Last Invention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Invention.

    Every sentence, image and video on the internet will feed Sam's bottomless hunger! Train your models, grow your subscribers, buy new hardware and scrape even more data, all to build a super-duper artificial intelligence and leave every rival behind.

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    Lemonade Apocalypse — Steam game cover

    Lemonade Apocalypse

    Single-player alternative to The Last Invention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Invention.

    Make obscene amounts of money with lemonade. Become president, fuel climate change and geopolitical events in the name of profit. An incremental game about business decisions that are technically legal.

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    Click to Obsolete — Steam game cover

    Click to Obsolete

    Single-player alternative to The Last Invention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Invention.

    A satirical incremental clicker game. Play as a corporate tech CEO automating all human labor. Build server infrastructure, allocate compute to AI, manufacture robot armies, and lobby politicians to reduce global employment from 8 billion to zero.

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    Save the Game Devs — Steam game cover

    Save the Game Devs

    Single-player alternative to The Last Invention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Invention.

    Tap to drain an endless parade of overpaid CEOs, rescue laid-off game developers, and fund worker-owned indie studios. Upgrade from squeaky chairs to full cooperative ownership in a satirical incremental tycoon about rebuilding the games industry one severed golden parachute at a time.

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    RUG THEM ALL — Steam game cover

    RUG THEM ALL

    Single-player alternative to The Last Invention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Invention.

    A satirical political sim where you start as president with $1,000,000 and one term to become a billionaire. Move markets with a single post, front-run the crash, rug your own memecoin, and bet on disasters you cause - while the auditors build a file on you.

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    Labeloop — Steam game cover

    Labeloop

    Single-player alternative to The Last Invention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Invention.

    Labeloop is a darkly comic incremental clicker about a debt you can't escape. Slap labels on the Company's bottles, hit your nightly rent, and claw your way out of an ever-deeper hole. Clear your debt and they'll thank you with a bullet — then bill you for the funeral.

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    IT Outage Desk — Steam game cover

    IT Outage Desk

    Single-player alternative to The Last Invention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Last Invention.

    Start as a help desk technician and build your way to the top. Resolve tickets, hire staff, automate your department, and survive the increasingly absurd chaos of corporate IT in this humorous incremental clicker.

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    DEBTMASTER — Steam game cover

    DEBTMASTER

    Single-player alternative to The Last Invention — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Invention.

    You're drowning in debt and the interest never stops. Grind every hustle you can find -- card games, crypto mining, gig deliveries, content farming, and more -- while stacking upgrades from a pool of 1,000+. Automate with bots. Pay off your debt or drown trying. A roguelite capitalism satire.

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