Single-player games like Indie Dev Simulator
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Indie Dev Simulator, 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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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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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Banished
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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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Door Kickers
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
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Mini Metro
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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.
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Ultimate General: Gettysburg
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.
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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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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hack_me
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Indie Dev Simulator.
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 Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
TILE is a minimalist puzzle game with relaxing soundtrack.
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Numberline 2
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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 Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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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Bystander
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Indie Dev Simulator.
Bystander is an opportunity to become an agent for tracking the network during totalitarianism. Your task is to search among other people's correspondence on the network those that contradict the current laws, copies of which you will receive by fax.
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30 Seconds To Jail
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
An indie game about cops, drugs and Bob Marley where you have 30 seconds to hide your drugs.
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Red Rush
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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.