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Single-player games like 1,000,000 POTATOES

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to 1,000,000 POTATOES, 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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    Department 98 — Steam game cover

    Department 98

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    Your placement is confirmed. Report to District Intake, desk seven. The previous occupant's effects have been cleared. An idle game inside a fake 1990s office OS about paperwork, promotion, and a job going very well.

    2026IndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PUROMA — Steam game cover

    PUROMA

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    You are a prisoner of your own bedroom. Unable to leave. Their eyes are everywhere. Somewhere below the layers of filth lies the true heart of reality. You must dig.

    SimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Flesh Grinding — Steam game cover

    Flesh Grinding

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    Grind flesh. Gather blood. Upgrade. A first-person incremental horror game where you manage a macabre basement. Buy dark upgrades. boost your efficiency. and push your machinery to the limit while avoiding the terrifying entity that watches your every move.

    2026StrategyAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Feed The Vessel — Steam game cover

    Feed The Vessel

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Swarm Idle — Steam game cover

    Swarm Idle

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    Swarm Idle is a prestige idle/incremental game where you command an alien queen and her swarm: devour 100 cities, develop eight lineages, optimize your Mutations, and progress even while offline until the whole Earth is ravaged.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Progress98 — Steam game cover

    Progress98

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    A satisfying incremental idle game that drops the pretense to give you pure unadulterated progress. Boost, earn bonuses and buy upgrades to speed up your progress or take it easy and let it make progress by itself while you make progress elsewhere. No stress, only progress!

    2026IndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I hate progress bars — Steam game cover

    I hate progress bars

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    A short incremental clicker about the progress bar that stops at 99%. Destroy bars by hand, unlock skills that click for you, and fight through installers, updates and a blue screen — one bar at a time, then hundreds at once.

    2026SimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Execute — Steam game cover

    Execute

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallen Blades — Steam game cover

    Fallen Blades

    Single-player alternative to 1,000,000 POTATOES — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 1,000,000 POTATOES.

    Spark a rebellion in this top-down slasher where you lead rogue armies against hundreds of imperial soldiers at once. Master split-second combat in the story-driven campaign – playable solo or in co-op – or test your blades against each other in the PvP arena.

    ActionIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →