Single-player games like The Golem
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Golem, 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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Stephen's Sausage Roll
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
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Room to Grow
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
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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Maxwell's puzzling demon
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
"Thermodynamic" puzzle where Maxwell's demon does work of block-pushing. Deal those hot blocks with cold blocks so that the demon doesn't get burnt.
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Sokobond
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.
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Bonfire Peaks
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Yugo Puzzle
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
Yugo Puzzle is a minimalist, relaxing, and satisfying puzzle game. Move jelly blocks left and right to merge them with the same color. It may sound simple, but it’s deceptively challenging. Enjoy the satisfaction of solving each puzzle.
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Magicube
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
A magical puzzle platformer made with PICO-8. Be thinky to get the legendary treasure.
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Bean and Nothingness
Single-player alternative to The Golem — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Golem.
A difficult tile-based puzzle game about turning beans into monsters -- and monsters back into beans.