Single-player games like Department 98
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Department 98, 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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1,000,000 POTATOES
Single-player alternative to Department 98 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
Peeling simulator with creeping horror. Peel, haul, and automate your way through 1,000,000 potatoes in a freezing 1991 warehouse. Build a machine empire of fryers, mashers, and stills - and watch the giant pile shrink. Most potatoes are just potatoes. Some are not.
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Spinnopoly
Single-player alternative to Department 98 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
One reel away from glory. Starting with a 1 in 178 billion chance, some people would have given up by now. Your whole life you have always been a loser, is it gonna be different this time?
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FACEMINER
Single-player alternative to Department 98 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
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UFO98
Single-player alternative to Department 98 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
Defy the government, leak top-secret alien telemetry, and wake up the world… inside an isolated Win98 workstation.
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SECTOR GRID: Efficiency Protocol
Single-player alternative to Department 98 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
A first-person incremental management game set in a dystopian corporation. Rise from a mindless worker to a ruthless manager, forced to choose between extreme efficiency and humanity.
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System.Execute
Single-player alternative to Department 98 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
Take control of a high-contrast terminal in System.Execute, a retro-styled incremental idle game. Generate FLOPS, upgrade through 15 tiers of hardware, prestige into Neural Weights, install optimization nodes, choose an endgame Protocol, and climb the global leaderboard.
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Feed The Vessel
Single-player alternative to Department 98 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
A Short Active Incremental game where you grow clones in vats, feed them to the entity, butcher and burn them for meat, blood, and ichor, upgrade your ship's stations, push the engine into overdrive, and reach the other side.
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IncrementalOS
Single-player alternative to Department 98 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Department 98.
An incremental love letter to the 90s desktop. Start with a blank desktop and one icon, unlock programs, systems and minigames, make more money, and build your way up to a system worth bragging about.