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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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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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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Party Hard
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Kindergarten.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
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CARRION
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
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POSTAL 2
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Kindergarten.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
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Grunn
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
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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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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.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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OneShot
Single-player alternative to Kindergarten — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kindergarten.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.