Single-player games like Simple Machines
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Simple Machines, 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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Oik 5
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple Machines.
Casual physics puzzle. The player's goal is keep the blue block on the platform for 3 seconds in order to pass the level.
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How To Bathe Your Cat
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple Machines.
It is well known that cats aren' t really fond of water, but, as pet owners, we know that sometimes a good bath is welcome. Use bombs and blocks to channel the water and clean your cat!
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Fly West
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple Machines.
A nostalgic love letter to old-school Flash launcher games: aim, charge, and fire a reckless cowboy across the Wild West. Bounce off hazards, trigger mid-air blasts, buy absurd upgrades, and turn every glorious faceplant into your next big payday.
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Shwoop
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple Machines.
Draw curves to guide projectiles into matching collectors. A physics puzzle game of rhythm, logic, and precision. Climb the leaderboards, then build and share levels of your own.
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ツミゲーム（Tsumi Stack）
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple Machines.
⚠️ WARNING: The most stressful physics puzzle on Steam. Tsumi Stack is an addictive game where 3 matching colors vanish! A 1mm error shifts the center of gravity and ruins everything. Avoid sudden erasures and catastrophic collapses to survive this unforgiving challenge!
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Graviter
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple Machines.
Graviter is a real-world-physics-based game about manipulating gravitational forces. Shrink and enlarge bodies, and move them around to find your way through over a hundred different levels of varying complexity.
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Osmos
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple Machines.
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.
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Zup! S
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple Machines.
Minimal physical puzzle with explosions
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Dungeon Origins
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Simple Machines.
Betrayed by the kingdom, the hero seeks his revenge as a new dungeon master! Build and manage your dungeon, raid villages, unlock new evolutions, grow an army of powerful monsters and then fulfill your revenge against the kingdom!
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Evil Lurks Below
Single-player alternative to Simple Machines — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Paranormal detective Harry Walters investigates the mysterious case of the missing Gilman family. Following rumors of supernatural events, he visits their abandoned home for clues. He uncovers disturbing memories and a hidden hatch leading to a mysterious area beneath the house.