Single-player games like Handshakes: Hands On
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Handshakes: Hands On, 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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Mina & Michi
Single-player alternative to Handshakes: Hands On — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A 2D top-down puzzle/adventure game about friendship featuring 2 players local co-op.
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Sokobear: Cave
Single-player alternative to Handshakes: Hands On — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.
Bear has a shiny new job! There are lots of caves inside this mine full of glowing rocks, and he must collect the precious stones. Help Bear in these sokoban-like puzzles. Plan your moves, break the crystals blocking your way! Gathering gems can get quite tricky.
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Mistified
Single-player alternative to Handshakes: Hands On — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.
Solve puzzles and save souls by traversing increasingly complex islands. All to secure your lost spices and get home for dinner.
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This Is Not Chess
Single-player alternative to Handshakes: Hands On — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A turn-based tactics game about goofy characters with wide and varied techniques duking it out across a bright and colourful battlefield.
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Let's Cook Together 2
Single-player alternative to Handshakes: Hands On — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.
Let’s Cook Together 2 is a frantic, cooking game for 1-4 players. Learn over 65 dish recipes, master 250+ levels, upgrade your kitchen appliances and travel around the world to make cooking meaningful again. Communication is the key!
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Rhythm Doctor
Single-player alternative to Handshakes: Hands On — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
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BattleBlock Theater®
Single-player alternative to Handshakes: Hands On — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
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Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
Single-player alternative to Handshakes: Hands On — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!