Single-player games like Almost Retired
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Almost Retired, 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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ONE GIANT HOLE
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.
Humanity teams up to dig BILLIONS of VOXELS to create the world’s biggest hole—together. Every swing makes this giant hole bigger! Obtain resources, upgrade your pickaxe, and chat with others using text or voice! Dig this giant shared hole with friends, strangers, or solo!
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Deep Space Exploitation
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
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A Game About Cutting A Tree
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.
A minimalist game about reclaiming an overgrown forest Chop down trees, gather Wood, sell it, upgrade your axe, and uncover secrets hidden beneath the roots.
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10 Million Pixels
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.
Mine through millions of pixels to find the one golden pixel. A mesmerizing incremental game about exploration and erosion.
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Rockhopper
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Almost Retired.
Become a space mining astronaut in this chill rogue-lite mining game. Explore, mine and complete objectives while unlocking and upgrading your equipment along the way.
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Asteroid Rodeo
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
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Smash Hit Museum
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.
Smash stones. Collect artifacts. Build the world’s most profitable museum. A short clicker game set in the archeology room of a museum. Build up your collection and Upgrade until you break it.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Almost Retired.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
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Code of Shadows
Single-player alternative to Almost Retired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Almost Retired.
Code of Shadows is a fast-paced roguelite where you don't just deploy drones, you command them. Switch modes mid-fight, fuse drones into stronger ones, and cut through rift-spawned hordes across collapsing dimensions.