Single-player games like A=B
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to A=B, 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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Pawn.OS()
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
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Funge
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on a modified version of the esolang Befunge. Learn its unique rules, execute your code, and conquer mind-bending logic challenges.
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Bombe
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
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Calculator: The Game
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
Calculator: The Game is an adorable puzzle game where you save the world with your calculator and Clicky, the chatty assistant. Solve the mystery of Clicky through 200 hand crafted puzzles by adding, subtracting, deleting, and reversing numbers. Oh, and portals, did I mention there are portals?
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The Farmer Was Replaced
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
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Brainfuck Challenge
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck. Learn its rules, solve clever challenges, and even run your code in an external terminal.
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Programmer Dungeon Knightress
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
Programmer Dungeon is a tactical game that challenges players to use logic programming to solve puzzles and progress through each level. Collect unique skills, use visual programming to automate your character, and defeat your enemies. Plan carefully and enjoy this exciting adventure!
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Escape From Hard Drive
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
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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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
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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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
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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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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Save Room - Organization Puzzle
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
When you enter a save room you know you are safe, no danger can come to you, you can relax. Take advantage of this short period of time to organize your inventory, heal your wounds and reload your weapons. Can you make all the items fit in your inventory?
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The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is here! Inside you will find all seven Zachtronics solitaire games, updated with new 4K graphics, plus one brand new Tarot-themed solitaire variant only available here.
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14 Minesweeper Variants
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
Minesweeper but the rules are changing.
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Understand
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.
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14 Minesweeper Variants 2
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Minesweeper but the rules are changing, again.
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YAPP: Yet Another Puzzle Platformer
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.
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YAPP2: Yet Another Pushing Puzzler
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
A weird 3d puzzle game.
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Crayon Computer
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
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Spacecaps
Single-player alternative to A=B — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A=B.
In this puzzling space capsule, you can only move left and right, but any direction could be your left and right!