Single-player games like Tardy
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Tardy, 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 Red Strings Club
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
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Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
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VirtuaVerse
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.
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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tardy.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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Void And Meddler
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
Fragments and details, rainy nights and blurry lights are all VOID&MEDDLER focuses on. A non-linear cyberpunk adventure where genders and species melt into each other.
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CAYNE
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
Hadley wakes in a facility. She is 9 months pregnant. They want her baby... CAYNE is the FREE, isometric horror game from the creators of STASIS.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is an innovative narrative driven adventure game. The story centers on Rachel Manners, a 35 year old astrobiologist. She is a member of an elite group of scientists, chosen to embark on one of the most critical missions ever conceived on Earth. Now Rachel is alone, orbiting an unknown planet.
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Papers, Please
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
Single-player alternative to Tardy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tardy.
Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.