Single-player games like ECHIDNA
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to ECHIDNA, 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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Pure Idle
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.
Become the right hand of the Creator in the search for lost perfection. Collect the light of billions of stars, guiding them into the heart of a black hole to find the one — Pure Idle. Technologies, production chains, and a long journey to the most beautiful star in the universe.
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Singularity Echoes
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.
Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.
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Nightwater
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
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Return to Planet Zoveka
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.
Return to Planet Zoveka is an incremental, physics-driven space-mining and resource-management game. Herd and merge cosmic dust, upgrade a family mining ship, build automation in space, and turn your growing operation into visible healing for a damaged homeworld.
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Pibcremental
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.
A cozy, chaotic idle-incremental clicker about growing a civilisation of tiny creatures called Pibbles in a giant tree, set in a post-human world.
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Mining and Dwarves
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ECHIDNA.
An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.
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OurClicker
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.
From the creators of OurLife and OurCoven, OurClicker is a brand new clicker game that puts you in charge of an up-and-coming Game Development Studio where all you do is... CLICK!
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Loop Alchemist
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.
You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form
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SurvAIval
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.
SurvAIval is a 2D survival automation game where you gather resources, build a base, create AI assistants, and explore new areas to expand your domain while defending against threats and leveling up your skills.
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Where Is Mommy
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.
Trapped in a bazaar that twists with every turn, you are a lost child searching for your mother. Watch for subtle anomalies in the shifting environment to survive the loop. In this retro-inspired world, nothing is as it seems. Can you find her before the cycle swallows you whole?
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FORJ
Single-player alternative to ECHIDNA — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Early Access with ECHIDNA.
Fight through cursed arenas, extract with the loot, and reforge it into power. A co-op action roguelite where hand-built golems mine, craft and run your shop while you battle, and every weapon can be enhanced, imbued, socketed and rerolled at your forge.