Single-player games like Little Inferno
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Little Inferno, 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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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Little Inferno.
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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World of Goo
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Little Inferno.
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
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Fire: Ungh’s Quest
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Inferno.
FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!
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Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Little Inferno.
You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Inferno.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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The Room
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Inferno.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
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Bully: Scholarship Edition
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Little Inferno.
Bully tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.
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Solar 2
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Inferno.
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
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Contraption Maker
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Little Inferno.
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
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Superflight
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Little Inferno.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
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7 Billion Humans
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Little Inferno.
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
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World of Goo 2
Single-player alternative to Little Inferno — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Inferno.
Build bridges, grow towers, terraform terrain, and fuel flying machines in the stunning followup to the multi-award winning World of Goo. The world is beautiful, dangerous, and evolving.