Single-player games like The Previous Owner
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Previous Owner, 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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In Trusted Hands
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
Dive into the daily work of a cozy workshop in a big city, accompanied by relaxing atmospheric music. Manage client data, balance energy and stress, and make choices that shape the story and its outcome.
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The Magic Bookstore
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Play as a young witch named Willow, who has just inherited a bookstore from her grandmother in the magical town of Lindow. Learn magic, help the townsfolk with their problems, and run the bookstore. There’s a lot to learn about selling not just books, but potions too!
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Shoku Pain
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Run a night-shift bakery inside a quarantine zone. Every customer looks human at first. Check their symptoms, fill the report, and make the call — bread, medicine, or the knife. Keep your supplies stocked and beware what waits outside the glass.
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Roads & Riches: Traveling Merchant Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
Hit the road with your merchant caravan! Travel across faraway lands, sell wonderful wares, and find magical treasures - all to win over the world's hearts, minds... and wallets!
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Final Profit: A Shop RPG
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!
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Corner Shop: NightShift
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.
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ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
Run a quaint electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo. Grow your business by carefully restoring iconic video game consoles, cell phones, music players, and other nostalgic devices. Talk to customers, hear their stories, and see how your decisions impact both their lives and your shop.
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Echoes of the Plum Grove
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Previous Owner.
A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.
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All Time High
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
A trading app, a group chat, and one "just one more trade." Chase a California fortune through a crypto mania where every gain costs something you can't buy back — a moral-descent thriller told entirely through your phone. Your choices write the ledger. Six endings.
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Dear Nobody
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
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1453: Fall of Constantinople
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
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Per My Last Email
Single-player alternative to The Previous Owner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Previous Owner.
You are the new hire. The account you inherited is not new — it belonged to E. Vale, who is no longer with the company. Ten business days of email in which you choose what you say, then choose who sees it. The routing is permanent. Someone is still reading.