Single-player games like Bystander
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Bystander, 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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BONEWORKS
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.
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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Objects in Space
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
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The Magic Circle
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?
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Party Hard 2
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!
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hack_me
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bystander.
Hack_me is a hacker simulator game. The main objective in game – is to hack big companies's servers to show people that there is nothing in this world that protected on 100%. You’ll need to use your cmd, bruteforce, SQL-injectors and other programs to hack servers.
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TILE
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bystander.
TILE is a minimalist puzzle game with relaxing soundtrack.
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Numberline 2
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bystander.
NumberLine 2 is the continuation of the popular (no.) puzzle. You must repeat the indicated image from the numbers. But it isn't so easy - you can create only blocks with a "1", but when you create it, the numbers on all adjacent blocks are incremented by 1.
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ThinkAhead
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bystander.
The concept of the game is to fill the board tiles using the knight chess piece. Levels start of simple, but become more complex leading up to the 10x10 board at the 60th level. Easy mode shows you the cells uoy can click on. It will help you to get uset to the gameplay.
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30 Seconds To Jail
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bystander.
An indie game about cops, drugs and Bob Marley where you have 30 seconds to hide your drugs.
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Indie Dev Simulator
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bystander.
In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.
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Red Rush
Single-player alternative to Bystander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bystander.
Take care of restoring the economy and the status of a superpower of a once great country in one of the most difficult times for Russia.