Single-player games like ComPressure
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to ComPressure, 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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Infinite Turtles
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ComPressure.
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
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GizmoLab VR
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ComPressure.
A VR sci-fi sandbox game where you can put your skills to the test to build crazy inventions, with mechanics analogous to real-life electrical engineering.
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Bombe
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with ComPressure.
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
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while True: learn()
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ComPressure.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
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Virtual Circuit Board
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ComPressure.
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
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Quantum Odyssey
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ComPressure.
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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Comet 64
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ComPressure.
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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Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ComPressure.
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ComPressure.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ComPressure.
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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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ComPressure.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ComPressure.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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Constructor
Single-player alternative to ComPressure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ComPressure.
You can’t rise to the top without taking a few others down. If that means engaging in a workplace accidents, dodgy deals, and a shifty trick or two then so be it! You're going to need every trick in the book if you want to go from small-time slumlord to property tycoon!