Single-player games like Alan's Automaton Workshop
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Alan's Automaton Workshop, 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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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
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Comet 64
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
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Train Set Code
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Build a train set layout where everything runs on its own. Automate points and signals to direct the trains and keep them moving. Get creative and design a huge network that carries a fleet of trains.
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ProBelt
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.
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Crispy Circuits
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Discover the world of electronics by fixing your hamster’s RC plane. Build real circuits, solve increasingly challenging engineering puzzles, and learn how electronic devices actually work. This wholesome circuitry sim lets you electrocute your hamster without authorities getting involved.
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ABI-DOS
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
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Geareo
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Real gears that don’t slip in a physics sandbox. Build freely with resizable parts and shapes, solve physics-based puzzles, fuse structures with Super Glue into stable mechanisms, and engineer intricate contraptions, precision machines, and complex mechanical systems.
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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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Robo Instructus
Single-player alternative to Alan's Automaton Workshop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Alan's Automaton Workshop.
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.