Single-player games like Containment
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Containment, 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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Quarantine
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Containment.
Quarantine is an intense turn-based strategy game about waging war on pandemic disease. Recruit a team of specialized operatives to deploy on worldwide missions. Research the contagion, upgrade your tech, and quarantine the outbreak before it kills us all.
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Predynastic Egypt
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Containment.
Do you know how did Ancient Egypt looked like before the Great Pyramids? Lead the future Egyptian citizens all the way through the historical hardships to the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt, and you will find out!
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Solar Settlers
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Containment.
Solar Settlers is a card-driven space exploration strategy game set in the far future. Our sun is on the verge of collapse and so mankind has taken to the stars aboard colony ships to seek out a new home.
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Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Containment.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
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Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Containment.
Unity of Command is an innovative and refreshing operational-level wargame that covers the entire 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front.
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Wanna Survive
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Containment.
HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.
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Bronze Age - HD Edition
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Containment.
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!
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Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Containment.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
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The Cat Machine
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Containment.
The Future is Meow! The Cat Machine is a game of logic, and cats riding around on trains.As we are all aware, The Cat Machine is a giant contraption that maintains the stability of earth's orbit around the sun. A fun logical puzzler with over 50 levels, now you can build that machine too!
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Evo Explores
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Containment.
Explore impossible geometry and optical illusions!
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Steven Universe: Save the Light
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Containment.
Join the Crystal Gems on the ultimate quest! A mysterious new Gem has stolen a powerful weapon. Only Steven and his friends have what it takes to stop her. “Save the Light” is a unique RPG hybrid that combines real-time and turn-based combat.
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Void Sols
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Containment.
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
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TwinCop
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Containment.
TwinCop is the most cooperative game, EVER. Play this action-packed, co-op, twin-stick shooter with your best bud or significant other. You and your friend are TwinCop: One player controls the right arm; the other controls the left arm; both of you control movement.
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The Gardener and the Wild Vines
Single-player alternative to Containment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Containment.
Leap, slash, and climb your way to the top of magical towers in this wholesome platformer about a gay Gardener on a quest to rescue his love.