Single-player games like Employee Recycling Center
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Employee Recycling Center, 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 Mexican Dream
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Employee Recycling Center.
Protect America from losing it's resources as Americans flee from the country and Mexicans enter, shoot them down by creating weaponized wall the likes that no one as ever seen!
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Viscera Cleanup Detail
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Employee Recycling Center.
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
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Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee Recycling Center.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.
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Escape First 3
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee Recycling Center.
"Escape First 3" is the third installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.
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- Arcane Raise -
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee Recycling Center.
Arcane Raise is a role-playing video game franchise, wherein a group of resurrected hunters known as Shades, fight alongside humans against monsters in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by an infestation. Do you have what it takes to survive this hostile land?
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The Assembly
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee Recycling Center.
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, that culminate in one of multiple thrilling conclusions.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee Recycling Center.
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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Pih
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Employee Recycling Center.
Pih🥀 is the one and only pig-physics based shooter! Defeat enemy pigs, and don't get "HAMMED🍖" or "SAUSAGED" Oh... also make sure you don't get "GOLD HOGGED", "BOAR'ED" or..."LIL PIGGED" Shoot and punch those hawgs like your life depends on it! And the music is 🔥 Hop on Pih🥀hawg!
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Drive-By Hero
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Employee Recycling Center.
Inspired by arcade game experiences, Drive By Hero is an apocalyptic shooter game. Shoot enemies, kill bosses, use new weapons and try to survive in this horrific action game. Alone with your car and your gun, you are not the hero they deserve but the one they need.
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Dark Passenger
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Employee Recycling Center.
Dark Passenger is an audio game which starts you off in a morbid scenario of having a panic attack as your character adjusts to the fact that their eyes have been recently removed from their body.
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Relic Keepers
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee Recycling Center.
Relic Keepers is an action game set in a fantasy setting. Helped by the village guards, keep the artefact inside the village walls and outlast a legion of evil creatures.
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Suicide Adventures
Single-player alternative to Employee Recycling Center — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Employee Recycling Center.
Lost in the abyssal depths of limbo, you are a tortured soul who is trapped between life and death, stuck in a dungeon whose puzzles will test you as you strive to go into the afterlife.