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Single-player games like Pull Until It Breaks

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Pull Until It Breaks, 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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    The Hundredth Gear — Steam game cover

    The Hundredth Gear

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    Build the legendary Hundredth Gear, a 100-stage mechanical machine, in this first-person incremental game. Start with your own two hands, then research, upgrade and automate your growing creation as you chase the impossible: 10¹⁰⁰ rotations. What happens if you actually reach it?

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CRETA: Taskbar Fishing — Steam game cover

    CRETA: Taskbar Fishing

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    A cozy idle fishing game that lives on your taskbar. Catch and collect fish while you work, stream, or play something else, then open Advanced Mode to manage gear, professions, shack upgrades, and new regions.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Find The Needle — Steam game cover

    Find The Needle

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    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.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tramp: Become President — Steam game cover

    Tramp: Become President

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    This is your cyber begging companion: collect, craft, and trade hundreds of items, recruit a cast of eccentric NPCs, explore the sewers, build your business empire, dodge taxes, and buy votes on the black market. One day, you'll be shouting from the back of your own presidential campaign truck.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bills Must Be Paid — Steam game cover

    Bills Must Be Paid

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    You're broke, smash piggy banks, bills must be paid. A short active incremental game. Get money, upgrade, and get debt free!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Deconsecration Initiative — Steam game cover

    The Deconsecration Initiative

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    A short incremental game about building a weapon to kill a god. Build your base, fire your laser, collect shards, Barry has turned into a slug. Upgrade your slugs.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Scratch the Ticket — Steam game cover

    Scratch the Ticket

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    Scratch the Ticket is a first‑person incremental gambling sim where every ticket is a test of nerves. Print tickets, scratch cells, and decide: cash out now or risk it all. The outcome depends only on your choice.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Miseria — Steam game cover

    Miseria

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    Miseria is a dark fantasy idle incremental game in which you lead a party of damned souls through the depths of the world.

    2026IndieSimulationRPG7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward — Steam game cover

    Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pull Until It Breaks.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventure7.19 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I AM COFFEEE! — Steam game cover

    I AM COFFEEE!

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Pull Until It Breaks.

    Play as a sentient coffee machine in a dark comedy office game where every choice fuels productivity, panic, and workplace chaos.

    SimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Until the Fire Dies — Steam game cover

    Until the Fire Dies

    Single-player alternative to Pull Until It Breaks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Pull Until It Breaks.

    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.

    ActionAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →