Single-player games like CATO: Buttered Cat
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to CATO: Buttered Cat, 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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Jelly & Toast
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Jelly & Toast is a local co-op game where you control Jelly and Toast on an exciting quest for stolen magical ingredients. Throw your friends or boxes, beware of enemy cooks or kitchen hazards, and explore a world full of culinary challenges!
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Frincess&Cnight
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Frincess&Cnight is a single-screen puzzle-platformer game about struggle and love between Frog princess and Cat knight.
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Mosa Lina
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
a hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works
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Unless
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Challenge yourself and master 4 Distinct worlds with 66 finely tuned level screens and climb to the top of the Steam Leaderboards in this retro pixel art speedrunning platformer!
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Gemima
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Sokoban, shared! A cute, two-player co-op twist on classic Sokoban-style gameplay. Or play solo for a real test of dexterity!
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Baby Dino Adventures
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Baby Dino Adventures is a cute platformer game inspired by classic retro games. You play a lost baby T-Rex, and help him find his parents back. You won't kill anyone. But rather solve puzzles, and make new allies throughout this upcoming adventure. ♥
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Escape from Life Inc
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Escape from Life Inc is a quirky story-driven puzzle platformer, where you switch between three animals: a walking fish, an arrogant eagle and a stuttering reindeer. Together with plenty of wacky characters, help these three unlikely friends escape the alien lab!
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Copy Cats
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Utilize the power of the mysterious cloning machine and use your handy copy cats to solve puzzles and help a little kitty escape from a strange virtual dimension!
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Portal
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Stephen's Sausage Roll
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CATO: Buttered Cat.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to CATO: Buttered Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CATO: Buttered Cat.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.