Single-player games like Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory, 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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A Lone Piece
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Easy to learn. Hard to master. A Lone Piece is a chess themed puzzle game where you control a single pawn caught in the middle of opposing hostile pieces. Your main job is to escape the board, but sometimes offence is the best defense. Become more than just A Lone Piece.
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Piggy Gambit
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Piggy Gambit is a game that harmoniously combines the elements of chess, box puzzles, and flow control into a coherent puzzle game about a piggy searching for the meaning to his life.
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Pirate's Gold
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Pirate's Gold is a unique twist on the sokoban and match-3 genre that challenges your mind!
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Chloe Puzzle Game
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
"This charming pixel art puzzle game features adorable visuals across 72 puzzles, with each puzzle boasting its own unique logic that will put players' wits to the test. Every puzzle features a new design where players have to get Chloe and Bunny safely to their Targets"
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Tombs Of Myra
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Descend into the cursed tombs of Myra and free the souls of ancient warriors in this turn-based puzzle dungeon crawler game.
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Infection - Board Game
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Infection is an abstract strategy board game played on a 7x7 board.
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Dominate - Board Game
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Dominate is an abstract strategy board game played on a 8x8 board.
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Snake Pit
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
"Snake Pit" is a Puzzle Game with a simple but incredibly Fun Gameplay. Help the little Caveman escape the Snakes and defeat Medusa.
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Toki Tori 2+
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island.
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TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!
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Recursed
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
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Patrick's Parabox
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.
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Jelly Is Sticky
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
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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Chip's Challenge 1
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles. Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time.
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Ittle Dew 2+
Single-player alternative to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Ittle and Tippsie crash onto yet another island filled with loot, puzzles and mysterious inhabitants! With the help of a magical map, they set out to steal eight pieces of a raft from increasingly improbable locations including beaches, prairies, an art exhibit and some dude's basement.