Single-player games like Beam
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Beam, 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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Bionic Bay
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
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This Side Up
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Run and grab to deliver boxes in a mind-bending multi-gravitational warehouse inspired by the drawings of MC Escher!
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The Gun Goes; BOOM!
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Oh no, you have lost your legs! Use your sci-fi gun to rocket jump your way up, but be careful; one wrong move and you might just fall right to where you started.
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Ziode Shadow
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beam.
WARNING: This game requires you to think for yourself! Ziode Shadow is a 2D platform/puzzle game about a hungover planet explorer, and his unwanted bot companion. He must utilize many different objects, and manipulate his surroundings, enabling both him, and his support pod to navigate the terrain.
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Driving Is Hard
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Prove your skills by driving the Bathtub on Wheels! Solve puzzles, collect soap, and dive into Jeff's family drama. Drive, Fall, Learn, Repeat.
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DEPLOYMENT
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter
- 7
Heavenly Bodies
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
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Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Oddworld: Soulstorm is the explosive second game in a brand new Oddworld Quintology that tells the continuing story of Abe and his comrades as they discover further crimes against Mudokonkind and look for the spark that will ignite a revolution.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Beam.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Parking World: Build & Manage
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.
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Tunnel VR
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Beam.
Like racing trough endless tunnels in space? Then look no further, this is the game for you. Because it is all about racing. In a tunnel. In space.
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Forensics: Crime Scene Detective
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Become a forensic specialist in a realistic crime lab simulator. Investigate crime scenes, collect microscopic evidence, and identify perpetrators in the lab using DNA and digital analysis. Based on the experience and insights of experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate.