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Single-player games like Protect your planet

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Protect your planet, 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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    Overcooked — Steam game cover

    Overcooked

    Single-player alternative to Protect your planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protect your planet.

    Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Game Dev Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Game Dev Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Protect your planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protect your planet.

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Plebby Quest: The Crusades — Steam game cover

    Plebby Quest: The Crusades

    Single-player alternative to Protect your planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Protect your planet.

    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?”

    2020ActionStrategyIndie3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Goat Simulator — Steam game cover

    Goat Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Protect your planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protect your planet.

    Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.

    2014IndieSimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Human Resource Machine — Steam game cover

    Human Resource Machine

    Single-player alternative to Protect your planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protect your planet.

    Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

    2015IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    911 Operator — Steam game cover

    911 Operator

    Single-player alternative to Protect your planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protect your planet.

    Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SMACKHEAD — Steam game cover

    SMACKHEAD

    Single-player alternative to Protect your planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protect your planet.

    Can you complete all the levels of SMACKHEAD to escape from this strange dream and grab the ultimate completion achievement?

    2017ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hatoful Boyfriend — Steam game cover

    Hatoful Boyfriend

    Single-player alternative to Protect your planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protect your planet.

    Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.

    2014IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →