Single-player games like The Hundredth Gear
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Hundredth Gear, 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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Pull Until It Breaks
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.
Push everyday materials to their breaking point in a destructive-testing simulation game with incremental progression. Apply force, earn Research, upgrade your machine, unlock new specimens, and discover which breaks first: the specimen or the machine?
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Fruitfall
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.
Fruitfall is an orchard simulator with incremental progression and automation. Harvest and sell fruit, craft a variety of products, plant new trees, automate your orchard, increase your profits, and build your own fruit empire!
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Find The Needle
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.
You have a shovel and a haystack with about six million strands in it. Somewhere inside there's a needle. Dig it out by hand, sell the hay, then spend the money on belts and machines until you don't have to dig anymore.
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Glint Grade
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hundredth Gear.
Glint Grade is a 3D tycoon sandbox where you can design and develop your own factory! Mines generate ores which you must navigate through complex networks of upgraders, teleporters, and smelters to multiply their values.
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Investor Incremental
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hundredth Gear.
From 0 to Hero investing simulation game. Start as a dead end job worker and work your way to financial freedom. Supports both minmaxing and relaxing playstyles.
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Bottle Flip Inc
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hundredth Gear.
An incremental game about flipping bottles, unlocking and upgrading unique abilities, and turning simple bottle flips into increasingly satisfying moments.
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Hamstr Protocol
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hundredth Gear.
Build a hamster-powered bio-mining operation from the ground up. Assemble rigs by hand, manage heat, feed your runners, and keep production moving. Start in a garage, optimize every part of your operation, and scale into a full-scale industrial operation.
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Ember Folks
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hundredth Gear.
Expand your city, summon an army of workers, mine resources and heat a dying star to millions of degrees in this incremental adventure. Discover new upgrades and synergies, prestige to unlock new mechanics and watch numbers go up - a lot.
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Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Hundredth Gear.
Explore an abandoned psychiatric ward in this first-person psychological horror. Find patient files, solve puzzles, uncover your connection to the ward, and survive the entities stalking its halls. You cannot fight back.
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I AM COFFEEE!
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Hundredth Gear.
Play as a sentient coffee machine in a dark comedy office game where every choice fuels productivity, panic, and workplace chaos.
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Until the Fire Dies
Single-player alternative to The Hundredth Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.
A first-person survival horror game where you chop trees and split logs by day, then keep the fire alive through the night as horrors close in beyond its light.