Single-player games like Kindergarten
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Kindergarten, 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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Kindergarten 2
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Welcome to Kindergarten 2, which takes place on Tuesday! After the events of Monday, you'll find yourself in a new school with new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
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Beyond a Total Loss
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Beyond a Total Loss is a darkly humorous 2D action-adventure (with a dash of survival horror) about a balding moustachioed dim-witted drunk called John Harry, who comes to the conclusion that signing an unreadable contract in exchange for a gun maybe isn't the best of ideas.
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Brutal Bible Bloodbaths
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Kindergarten.
Based on shocking Bible passages, use weapons like your magic laser sword to cleanse the promised land with optional body chopping and blood splatter.
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MEAT-GRINDER
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Have a human MEATGRINDER with Obi the freelance hitman! Fulfill contracts all over the planet, open a beer, turn off your brain: it's time to kill and solve the financial problems of Obi and her peculiar family!
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kindergarten.
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
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Kindergarten 3
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
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Rage in Peace
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Rage in Peace is a story-driven action adventure with elements of surprise and memorization. Unravel the last day of Timmy's life, as he races against time to get back home and fulfill his sole dream of dying peacefully in his pajamas, in the warmth of home, in peace, and with no drama.
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Metal Dead
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
A hilariously terrifying adventure filled with laughs, blood, insanity, and of course... hordes of the undead.
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kindergarten.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Anodyne
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kindergarten.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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Unavowed
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.