Single-player games like Long Dives
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Long Dives, 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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Mergeopolis
Single-player alternative to Long Dives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.
Merge matching buildings to grow a tiny island into a thriving city. Plan residential, commercial, industrial, and civic districts, reinvest their income, unlock more land, and build at your own pace in this relaxing incremental city builder.
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The Last Mothership
Single-player alternative to Long Dives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Long Dives.
A short incremental game about harvesting planets to feed your mothership. Mine, manage resources, grow your fleet, and unlock upgrades to evolve your species. You are the devourer of worlds.
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Pibcremental
Single-player alternative to Long Dives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.
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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Incremental Donuts
Single-player alternative to Long Dives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.
Start with one donut. End with a multidimensional bakery empire. Click, automate, expand, unlock the Research Lab, run a Storefront, and break through to the Donut Hole. A layered idle game that keeps unfolding new systems until your mouse screams for mercy.
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Project: C.E.L.L.
Single-player alternative to Long Dives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.
Project: C.E.L.L. is a short arcade incremental about jumpstarting a dying cell. Break glucose, build combos, and unleash special charges inside a retro terminal simulation.
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SCP Idle: SECURE. CONTAIN. PROGRESS.
Single-player alternative to Long Dives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.
In this incremental game you are in charge of managing a SCP facility site. Construct and upgrade new containment chambers, prevent devastating breaches and complete the Thaumiel Containment Engine.
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What the Buck?!
Single-player alternative to Long Dives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.
What the Buck?! is an incremental game about destroying money. Smash stacks of cash, upgrade your destructive power, discover game-changing skill tree upgrades, prestige and experience the dopamine of numbers exploding.
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Facrobry
Single-player alternative to Long Dives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.
Facrobry is a strategy-simulator in which you will manage an automated robot production station. Research upgrades, assemble robots, and send them into battle!