Single-player games like Extortion
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Extortion, 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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You Are The Code
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Extortion.
A programming puzzle game, but YOU CAN'T TYPE. Navigate and run pre-existing lines of code! Watch out for bugs eating away your program!
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Escape From Hard Drive
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Extortion.
EFHD is a game where programs change how game works. Modify and run the source files to create, destroy and move other objects.
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Quantum Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Extortion.
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, Quantum Odyssey is an open-ended puzzle game where you craft real quantum algorithms. Optimize 500+ challenges, hack other players, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Extortion.
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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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Extortion.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
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Bots Are Stupid
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Extortion.
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
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Hacknet
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Extortion.
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
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Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Extortion.
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms. Your brain power determines your firepower across 190+ programming nodes. Debug your failures. Optimize your code. Complete the heist. HACK THE PLANET!
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Alchemistry
Single-player alternative to Extortion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Extortion.
Practice Alchemistry, aka the art of merging elements to discover new ones! Solve challenges or play freely to discover every element. Craft the entire world from fire to life.