Single-player games like Help Wanted
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Help Wanted, 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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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home.
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Far Cry 3
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Discover the dark secrets of a lawless island ruled by violence and take the fight to the enemy as you try to escape. You’ll need more than luck to escape alive!
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Experience what it’s like to be Batman and face off against Gotham's greatest villians. Explore every inch of Arkham Asylum and roam freely on the infamous island.
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NineHells
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Ninehells is a psychological horror first person single player, with an unraveling mystery, enriched with voice acting, and has virtual haunted attraction feeling. You play as Davie a man trying to remember his past while traveling though Hell. Play and find out what in the ninehells is going on!
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Rage Bait
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Rage Bait is a narrated meta comedy walking simulator. Gameplay combines physics, player choices, timing, and small actions which lead to wildly different outcomes. Enjoy exploration, branching decisions, light puzzles, and skill checks which are often subverted for comedic effect.
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Magical Ascent
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This is a card game mixed with roguelike elements together to make the best single player deck builder possible. You can Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics, curses, and Magical Ascension.
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Your Reputation Precedes You
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this incremental game you Gain reputation with 3 different morality factions; Good, neutral, and Evil. Doing quests boosting levels, rewards, and Reputation. The friends you make along the way, help by gaining favor for more quest. More level ups more loot! Pump those Reps for more Reputation.
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Ruminate: The First Oath
Single-player alternative to Help Wanted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
This is a dark fantasy where the world has been divided and cursed. Your party will go on adventures and have the chance to remove the curses from the kingdoms and unite them! The world depends on you. Will you be their saviour or their downfall?