Single-player games like Leaves & Lanterns
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Leaves & Lanterns, 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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Landscaper Simulator
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Lawns are wild. Parks are buried in weeds. Streets are littered. The world needs a hero, and that’s where you come in. As the Landscaper, it’s your job to turn disorder into beauty. With your weed whacker, pressure washer, and trash vacuum, you’ll trim, wash, and restore every space to perfection.
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Sealcoating Simulator
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Sealcoating Simulator is a first-person game about the oddly satisfying craft of sealing asphalt. Pour it, spread it, and watch a tired old driveway turn deep black and glossy. It is calm, cozy and weirdly hard to put down: the kind of game you start for five minutes and look up an hour later.
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Animal Clicking
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
Animal Clicking is a cute, cozy island builder that blends farming, automation, and resource management with the addictive gameplay loop of clicker games into a completely new sandbox experience.
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Froggy Daycare
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Baby frogs keep washing up on the shore! Help Kisu "the Gardener Cat" with the important task of taking care of the babies.
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Capybaria
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
The coziest yet craziest game about capybara! Chill in hot springs, build architectural masterpieces, and start a family... then get behind the wheel, fly to space, or decide whether to let the President detonate a nuclear bomb. Your karma decides the fate of this world!
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Clean It Up!
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Manage your cleaning store where you clean and polish every last smudge of dirt. Use the profits to upgrade your supplies and keep everything clean.
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Twigs and Firewood
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
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The Office Cat
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Bring chaos to the office as a playful cat! Explore, knock things over, and interact with objects to create fun messes. Discover secrets and enjoy a relaxed sandbox full of mischief.
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Hexhorde
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
A pixel-art horde survivor. Pick a hero, wade into the swarm, and let your weapons fire while you move, level up, and shape a build — stacking upgrades, chasing synergies, and evolving your gear across stages full of enemies.
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The Ancient Caverns
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
A dark-fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler. Choose a class and descend through ever-shifting caverns, battling tier-scaled monsters floor by floor. Death takes your gear, but the artifacts you recover are yours forever. Loot, craft, and return to town to grow stronger.
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Bagatto
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.
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Bulwark Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
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Crownhold
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
Crownhold is a cozy storybook tower defense. Line winding roads with archers, mages, artillery and barracks, upgrade them into 12 mighty specializations, lead a hero and rain meteors on the goblin horde across 21 hand-painted levels — then hold on in Endless mode.
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Verlicia Saga
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
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The Antler and Ale Inn
Single-player alternative to Leaves & Lanterns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
A cozy fantasy tavern-building sim. Lay the floors, raise the walls, and furnish every corner — then cook, brew, and pour for a village of hungry guests. Hire your crew, run the inn upstairs, and grow a four-table taproom into a legendary multi-storey estate. No timers — play at your own pace.