Single-player games like Hard Times
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Hard Times, 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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Drug Dealer Simulator
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hard Times.
Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hard Times.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hard Times.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Hard Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Times.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.