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Single-player games like The Devil's Calculator

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Devil's Calculator, 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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    3D Math - Ultra — Steam game cover

    3D Math - Ultra

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.

    Mathematic Ultra - is both simple and complex challenges!

    2020SportsStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mystery Boxes — Steam game cover

    Mystery Boxes

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.

    Mystery Boxes is a codebreaking puzzle game. Send 4-digit signals to a mysterious artifact, which will respond with another sequence. Look for patterns in the responses to identify the rules, then use this information to produce the target response.

    2025StrategyIndieCasual7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.

    Copy Editor is an intricate puzzle game that teaches you Regular Expressions (RegEx), commonly used in computer science and language theory. Build complex rules that process and revise famous texts for your wacky and demanding publisher!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sketchbots — Steam game cover

    Sketchbots

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Devil's Calculator.

    Hone your programming skills through a series of increasingly complex challenges in which you use a node based language to guide your robot through the required goals.

    2021Indie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Math Challenge — Steam game cover

    The Math Challenge

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.

    Embark on a thrilling space adventure as an astronaut, where logic and math are your keys to survival. Navigate through challenges, unravel mysteries, and conquer the cosmos.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deductum — Steam game cover

    Deductum

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.

    Minimalistic puzzle game where you build formal logical proofs.

    2025StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Progress Chess — Steam game cover

    Progress Chess

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.

    Progress Chess is the most powerful chess simulator and chess competitions that take place in realistic 3D spaces: from a home apartment to a chess club! Playing in tournaments and analyzing games, go from a beginner to a world champion!

    2024SportsStrategyIndie7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Freelancer Life Simulator — Steam game cover

    Freelancer Life Simulator

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Devil's Calculator.

    Become one of the best freelancers, starting your way from scratch. Fulfill orders of varying difficulty.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    THE GAME — Steam game cover

    THE GAME

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Devil's Calculator.

    The right path or the left path? Which will you choose? To get the Free Pass and finish the game you have to make an important choice.

    2022IndieRPGCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Synonymy — Steam game cover

    Synonymy

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Devil's Calculator.

    Synonymy is a non-profit, educational word game narrated by Richard Dawkins where players are challenged to find a path between random words through their network of synonyms. By taking the synonym of a word, and then a synonym of that synonym, and so on, you can ultimately arrive at any other word in a language.

    2015StrategyCasual1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lazy Chess — Steam game cover

    Lazy Chess

    Single-player alternative to The Devil's Calculator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Devil's Calculator.

    Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.

    2021StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →