Single-player games like Beam
Below are 11 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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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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Rochard
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Fast-paced platforming action and mind-bending puzzles based on gravity
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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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BLACKHOLE
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!
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On Rusty Trails
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Beam.
Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!
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Super Magbot
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
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INSIDE
Single-player alternative to Beam — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
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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.