Single-player games like Tick & Tired
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Tick & Tired, 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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Gacha The Frog
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.
Collect and play with cute frogs in a cozy physics simulation. Use the machine to get new frogs, play mini-games to improve the odds of getting legendary frogs and manage your space so you can keep playing. Can you complete the album?
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Popcorn Idle
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.
Popcorn Idle is a cozy idle automation game about the simple joy of popping corn. Earn money, buy upgrades, automate and turn up the heat to boost production. Grow bigger numbers, unlock flavors and combine effects. Fill the whole machine with colorful, tasty popcorn, one crunchy pop at a time.
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HarvestCo.
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.
HarvestCo is a farming incremental idle game where a small field turns into an increasingly efficient money-making machine. Harvest crops, buy upgrades, grow passive income, automate production, and discover rare golden crops and strange field events.
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Charmcraft Idle
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.
Charmcraft Idle is a cozy, witchy idle shop simulator where you gather magical resources, craft enchanted goods, and slowly automate every part of your spellbound business. Click, craft, study, and hire staff as your humble witch shop grows into a magical enterprise.
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Fast Food Fortune
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Fast Food Fortune is a casual restaurant sim where you take a restaurant from the brink of financial ruin to a fast food fortune. Buy upgrades, update your restaurant, hire staff, and manage your way to the top of the fast food chain.
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Farm to Fortune
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.
Turn a tiny plot into a fortune, one seed at a time. Grow crops, sell them in your shop, and reinvest everything you earn. Better tools, more land, richer harvests. Relaxing from the first seed to the last field.
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The Grand Book Archive: Tidy Up
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.
Restore the Grand Book Archive by sorting 2,990 archaic books onto their rightful shelves. Use your observation and magical spells to organize the collection as quickly as possible. Completing each run will unlock more powerful upgrades that will help you become the ultimate archivist.
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Idle Coma Cracker
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Tick & Tired.
Decrypt the memories of our comatose clients, sorry, we meant patients! Earn credibility, tokens and cash. Buy hardware and scale from local machines to cloud computing, datacenters, and power generation. Automate your operation and keep cracking.
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Brainrotting
Single-player alternative to Tick & Tired — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tick & Tired.
Brainrotting is a "scroller" desktop simulator about doomscrolling or solving minigames, getting upgrades and eventually automating your dopamine generation.