Single-player games like Crazy Machines 1.5
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Crazy Machines 1.5, 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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Crazy Machines
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it...From grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun.
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Crazy Machines 2
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
Crazy Machines 2 is packed with all new features to help you create your wackiest "Rube Goldberg-style" contraptions yet! All new elements, plus an amazing 3D physics engine lets you craft even more complex gadgets and effects.
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NightSky
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
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Quantum Conundrum
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
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Mini Motorways
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
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RUSH
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor belts, Warps, Stops Signs, Splits and...
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Terra Nil
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
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Crazy Machines 3
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Crazy Machines 1.5.
Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.
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Crazy Machines Elements
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
GET YOUR BRAIN BUZZING with each new challenge in the latest installment of the multi award-winning wacky contraption series - CRAZY MACHINES ELEMENTS. Play with Fire, harness the power of water and control the wind to set off the most insanely creative chain reactions!
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Crazy Machines VR
Single-player alternative to Crazy Machines 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Crazy Machines 1.5.
With Crazy Machines VR the award winning puzzle game classic enters the Virtual Reality! Complete many crazy chain reactions and experience a rousing adventure surrounding the odd Clumsycorns! Or just mess around in the ingenious new interactive toy rooms.