Single-player games like smoke.exe
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to smoke.exe, 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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Topdeck Automat
Single-player alternative to smoke.exe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with smoke.exe.
The roguelike auto-battler where your deck prints itself! Supply a brave worker droid with synergistic blueprints to defend the planet against hordes of alien invaders. Combine hundreds of cards with custom upgrades and infinitely stackable modules to discover broken builds.
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Fire Burning City
Single-player alternative to smoke.exe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with smoke.exe.
Turn-Based + Survivor-Like?Play as a agent in a burning cyberpunk city! Strategize grid-by-grid, unleash skills to clear waves of enemies, and survive escalating challenges. Uncover secrets behind the chaos with simple, tactical moves. Can you outsmart the flames?
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Red Rocket Defencism
Single-player alternative to smoke.exe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with smoke.exe.
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
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Borrow or Rob
Single-player alternative to smoke.exe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with smoke.exe.
The Pantheon sends armies back from the future; humanity has never won. Now you fight backwards too. Two agents: one fights Phase 1 forward, the other refights it in reverse, where your past agent returns as a hologram to strike with you: the TEMPORAL PINCER. A retro future roguelike deckbuilder.
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S4NCTU4RY
Single-player alternative to smoke.exe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with smoke.exe.
S4NCTU4RY — a bar set in the heart of a cyberpunk city. Outside, the world is loud, exhausting, and never stops. Your job is to offer shelter from the chaos, and craft the one drink that makes people forget it all.
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Dog in the Machine
Single-player alternative to smoke.exe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with smoke.exe.
Train an AutoDog to escape a dystopian mecha-city in this tactical roguelite. Craft powerful modular attacks, plan every move with stress-free real-time previews, and unleash devastating chain reactions to outsmart hordes of killjoy robots!
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Flowers and Deities
Single-player alternative to smoke.exe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with smoke.exe.
Flowers and Deities is a strategy deckbuilder roguelite where you command a blood-soaked lizardkin army through escalating arena battles, spending every drop of spilled blood to cast spells, summon creatures, and survive long enough to claim the favor of the Gods
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Brawl To The West
Single-player alternative to smoke.exe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with smoke.exe.
"Join this hilarious auto-battler! Equip gear, grow fruit trees, and tame monsters to build your team. Choose unique characters or battle others in ranked mode—every run is fresh! Weaklings perish; victors take all. Will you go the farthest? Dive in now!"