Single-player games like Growbot
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Growbot, 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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TOHU
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
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Mutropolis
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
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Lost in Play
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Solve puzzles, riddles, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery! Join Toto and Gal as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, the brother and sister must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.
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Papetura
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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Milo and the Magpies
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Milo and the Magpies is a point-and-click, hidden object game following the story of a little cat named Milo who is trying to find his way home after getting turned around by an unfortunate encounter with some pesky magpies.
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Botanicula
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
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LUNA The Shadow Dust
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack.
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The Tiny Bang Story
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...
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Boxville
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.
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Catie in MeowmeowLand
Single-player alternative to Growbot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growbot.
Catie in MeowmeowLand is a classical humorous point-and-click adventure game. Help little Catie get back home from the bizarre cat world of MeowmeowLand!