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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SYMMETRY
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control. Can the crew manage to survive and get back home?
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龙胤立志传
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
《龙胤立志传》是一款融合门派经营的开放江湖武侠游戏。在各大门派割据一方的神州之上，你可以自由驰骋，历经奇遇，修炼神功，踏上行侠仗义或行凶作恶之路，也可以经营自己的门派，攻城略地，称霸一方，最终谱写一段独一无二的武林传奇。
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Sultan's Game
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
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Beholder
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
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Dead In Vinland
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
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GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Indie Dev Simulator.
In the Simulator of a game developer, you will be able to understand all the subtleties of this profession, understand how the game industry works and all the difficulties of one developer.
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911 Operator
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Indie Dev Simulator.
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!
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Indie Dev Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Indie Dev Simulator.
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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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.