Single-player games like Escape From Hard Drive
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Escape From Hard Drive, 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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Move Code Lines
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape From Hard Drive.
Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Escape From Hard Drive.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Escape From Hard Drive.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Escape From Hard Drive.
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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Hacknet
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Escape From Hard Drive.
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
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EXAPUNKS
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Escape From Hard Drive.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
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Hack 'n' Slash
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape From Hard Drive.
Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking -- reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even rewrite the game’s code. The only way to win is not to play...by the rules!
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Comet 64
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Escape From Hard Drive.
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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Code World
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape From Hard Drive.
In Code World you control the robot that can walk around the world and send messages to devices. Every device reacts on those messages according to its code. You will have to read this code, understand what messages to send and write your own code.
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Not So Heart
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape From Hard Drive.
Not So Heart is a retro hardcore platformer. But it has a secret. Don't try to fix anything.
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Markov Alg
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape From Hard Drive.
Markov Alg is a puzzle game where you can change the game field according to instructions that are written on the game field
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Isometric Nonogram
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape From Hard Drive.
Isometric version of classic nonograms. 3 visible sides of the cube are not independent. They are making common rows and columns with each other and it brings a fresh new feeling to the famous game.
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Merge It
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape From Hard Drive.
This puzzle game is about creating new objects by colliding other ones. Also you can change instructions that say how exactly this process works.
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Code Has Price
Single-player alternative to Escape From Hard Drive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Escape From Hard Drive.
Collect and buy commands. Construct program from them. Run code to get more coins and commands. Repeat.