Single-player games like Puddle Knights
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Puddle Knights, 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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Jelly Is Sticky
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puddle Knights.
Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.
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Room to Grow
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puddle Knights.
Tackle thorny problems in this plant pushing puzzle game. Learn to maneuver like a cactus as you grow your way back to the desert!
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Gentoo Rescue
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puddle Knights.
A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
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Bonfire Peaks
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Puddle Knights.
Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.
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Kine
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puddle Knights.
A quirky 3D puzzle game about three musicians forming a band and trying to score their breakout hit.
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Pipe Push Paradise
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Puddle Knights.
A difficult open world puzzle game about plumbing.
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Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Puddle Knights.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!
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A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Puddle Knights.
An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.
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Snakebird
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Puddle Knights.
Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.
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BoxIsland: Sokoban
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Puddle Knights.
On the enigmatic Box Island, an ancient civilization has left behind puzzle-filled ruins. Players take on the role of a young explorer, yet the island is shrouded in a mystical force - only by pushing boxes can one unravel the island's secrets and escape this challenging labyrinthine world!
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Robotry!
Single-player alternative to Puddle Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Puddle Knights.
Platforming is much harder when you don't have a jump button! Walk, jump, climb and parkour by directly controlling each leg of a confused baby robot. Go from a glitching toddler to a somersaulting acrobat in the story mode, share a multi-legged robot, or compete against friends in minigames!