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Single-player games like How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale, 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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    Lucky and a life worth living - a jigsaw puzzle tale — Steam game cover

    Lucky and a life worth living - a jigsaw puzzle tale

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    A dog’s life nowadays. Discover happy moments from the daily life of the dog Lucky with his parents. A new minimalist jigsaw puzzle game, with 6 scenes illustrated by @Katia Numakura with her cute art style.

    2020Casual1.39 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Panqueca & Paçoca: A Friendship Jigsaw — Steam game cover

    Panqueca & Paçoca: A Friendship Jigsaw

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    The friendship's love between Pancake and Paçoca. Discover a true friendship story between two distant friends in this innovative puzzle game, told in 5 handmade illustrated scenes. Have a calm and relaxing experience.

    2021Casual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Astrocat: Skylar´s Memories — Steam game cover

    Astrocat: Skylar´s Memories

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Discover all the moments Skylar lived until she became an astrocat and broke through space in this beautiful relaxing puzzle.

    2022IndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Newton's Life at Home - Pixel Art Jigsaw Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Newton's Life at Home - Pixel Art Jigsaw Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Newton's Life at Home is a jigsaw puzzle made with animated pixel art Gifs and a very cute kitten named Newton. Assemble the puzzles to find out what Newton the kitten likes to do at home.

    2021Casual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Invisible Places - Pixel Art Jigsaw Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Invisible Places - Pixel Art Jigsaw Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Invisible Places is a minimalist jigsaw puzzle game that mixes GIF Pixel Art and photographs instead of static images.

    2022StrategyIndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Buddy and Lucky Solitaire — Steam game cover

    Buddy and Lucky Solitaire

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    City or countryside? Play Classic Solitaire where you feel like it today, with your pet friends Buddy and Lucky.

    2021Casual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slide Stories: Neko's Journey — Steam game cover

    Slide Stories: Neko's Journey

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Follow Nina and her cat, Neko, on a journey through beautiful places in this relaxing and minimalist slide puzzle game.

    2020Casual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Alice in Wonderland - a jigsaw puzzle tale — Steam game cover

    Alice in Wonderland - a jigsaw puzzle tale

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!”, said Alice. A new jigsaw puzzle game to remember a beloved classic story. Now with 12 beautiful illustrations created by Katia Numakura, with inspiration from “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll.

    2020Casual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Island Farmer - Jigsaw Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Island Farmer - Jigsaw Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Arrange the farm islands and see your archipelago expand. Just swap the blocks of a 3D jigsaw puzzle.

    2021Casual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Arrange the town islands and see them come to life. Just swap the blocks of a 3D jigsaw puzzle.

    2022IndieCasual1.39 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mini Words - minimalist puzzle — Steam game cover

    Mini Words - minimalist puzzle

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    721 words. That is enough to cover 90% of conversations in English. Unscramble those words in Mini Words - a unique mix of puzzle, word search and hangman.

    2019IndieCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Instant Farmer - Logic Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Instant Farmer - Logic Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Water the soil of your ranch and watch your crop grow. A relaxing logic puzzle game.

    2021Casual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Answer Is 42 — Steam game cover

    The Answer Is 42

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Connect the numbers. Fill the board. You will find out.

    2019IndieCasual1.39 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mini Tone - Minimalist Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Mini Tone - Minimalist Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Mini Tone is a minimalist puzzle game that combines musical notes and physical intuition. Find the perfect angle and launching point to eliminate all musical blocks from each level. Can you execute the Perfect Path?

    2019IndieCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mini Words: Top Movies — Steam game cover

    Mini Words: Top Movies

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    The Top 100 Movies. You know them and you love them. Test your knowledge about the highest-grossing films of all time in “Mini Words: Top Movies”, a unique mix of logic puzzle, word search and trivia.

    2020Casual1.39 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pathfinders: Memories — Steam game cover

    Pathfinders: Memories

    Single-player alternative to How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale.

    Memory is the key. Use it to help Pathfinders travel through time visiting ancient human civilizations and search for relics. The path to success is full of entrapments, obstacles, and enemies. Memorize them and draw the safe path for our heroes.

    2021IndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →