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Single-player games like Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality, 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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    Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet The Medic — Steam game cover

    Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet The Medic

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet the Medic – be the Medic and operate on the Heavy in this free and exclusive teaser for the HTC Vive!

    2016ActionIndieSimulationFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Surgeon Simulator 2 — Steam game cover

    Surgeon Simulator 2

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    It’s time to ‘scrub in’ in this physics-based surgery sim. Unearth the mysteries of the Bossa Labs Medical Facility and save Bob’s life.

    2021ActionIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Job Simulator — Steam game cover

    Job Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GORN — Steam game cover

    GORN

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    GORN is a ludicrously violent VR gladiator simulator, made by Free Lives, the developers of Broforce and Genital Jousting.

    2019ActionIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Surgeon Simulator — Steam game cover

    Surgeon Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

    2013ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fighting Clans — Steam game cover

    Fighting Clans

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    A true, FIRST VR Street Fight! You’re just a regular guy, doing your best to get by, but you made your choices and now you’re in debt to the mafia. The only way you are going to save yourself is to fight. Prepare to engage in combat with no limits, no rules. You fight to win, you win to survive.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality — Steam game cover

    Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Santa's Visit — Steam game cover

    Santa's Visit

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    Discover you inner Santa Claus in this Virtual Holiday Experience! Take a ride across the world and then through Mistletoe County, leading up to the Smiths house. It's up to you to decide if they have been naughty or nice this year. Choose the right gifts and cause some mayhem before you leave!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I Am Bread — Steam game cover

    I Am Bread

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure2.59 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I Am Fish — Steam game cover

    I Am Fish

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    I Am Fish is a charming, physics-based adventure starring four intrepid fish friends, forcibly separated from their home in a pet shop fish tank. Swim, fly, roll and chomp your way to the open ocean in a bid for freedom and to re-unite once again.

    2021AdventureSimulation3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lost Skies — Steam game cover

    Lost Skies

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

    2025ActionAdventure24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deep Dungeons of Doom — Steam game cover

    Deep Dungeons of Doom

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    This game is only for the brave. Dungeons await, each one deeper, each one more perilous and each one more challenging than the last.

    2014AdventureRPGCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Worlds Adrift Island Creator — Steam game cover

    Worlds Adrift Island Creator

    Single-player alternative to Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality.

    Worlds Adrift is a Community-Crafted MMO: each and every island has been crafted by our playerbase. With the free Island Creator tool, this is your chance to create your own adventure for the community to experience. A crumbling ruin, or a teeming jungle, help expand the edges of Foundation ever further!

    2016SimulationFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →