Single-player games like Paper Shredder
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Paper Shredder, 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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Money Trees
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
Money Trees is a physics-driven first-person incremental experience about smacking money trees, gathering valuable coins, and throwing them into a chest. Deposit thousands of coins, buy powerful upgrades, and increase your coin collecting potential until you're making millions!
- 2
One’s Trash Another’s Treasure
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
You spent everything on 500,000 unclaimed cargo boxes. Now you have to open every single one. A first-person incremental game about grinding boxes, feeding a hole that never fills, and calling it a business plan. Buy tools, drones, and automation. Only 499,997 to go.
- 3
KOLUN
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
KOLUN - the machine. You are WORKER 1331. Your job is to work. Grab the stumps, split them, load the logs onto the cart, and earn Tickets.
- 4
Grass and Cash
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
Bad news: you're in debt. Good news: there's cash buried in the grass. Worse news: you're starting with nail scissors. Start mowing.
- 5
Water Trees Simulator
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
The trees on the mountain are withered. Please turn on the water valve and water them.
- 6
Incinerator Inc
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
You are a pyro for hire. In Incinerator Inc, people come to you with their problems and you make their problems… unrecoverable… It’s a easy business model. Because some stains only fire can shift.
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Software Industry Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
Build a software empire from a rented apartment. Hire, develop, ship — every release is your gamble. Your team gets tired, burns out, slacks off, and walks if pushed too hard. Markets shift every run. Loans ride on reputation. No right answers — only yours.
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Project P.I.T.T.
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
Feed rubber ducks to a corporate void. Build physics contraptions. Chain combos for profit as the Maw grows hungrier... and larger. Brutalist PSX satire meets first-person sandbox chaos.
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Murky Divers
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Paper Shredder.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
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Storebound
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Paper Shredder.
A 1-3 player co-op puzzle horror game set in an accursed megastore. Work together to decode the store's twisted logic, and find a way out before the lurking horrors doom you to shop forever.
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Strayed Lights
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Shredder.
Strayed Lights is a colourful action-adventure featuring epic boss fights and a unique parry-based combat system. Shift between colours to repel attacks and strike back. Explore a dreamlike world as you restore your light that was torn by shadows.
- 12
Tidy Wizard: A Place For Every Plate
Single-player alternative to Paper Shredder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Shredder.
Clean up wizard dining halls with magic! A satisfying organizing simulator where you levitate scattered dishes, wash tableware in enchanted basins, and return each piece to its proper cabinet. Unlock new spells to help transmute bigger & bigger messes into shiny, neat spaces!