Single-player games like Turn on the lights carefully
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Turn on the lights carefully, 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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Sokobond
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Turn on the lights carefully.
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Turn on the lights carefully.
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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Please Fix The Road
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
Please Fix The Road is a colorful, minimalistic, laid-back and casual puzzle game in which it's probably not hard to guess... you're fixing roads! Your road repair doesn't have to be beautiful, it just needs to get the job done! Your mom will like this game too!
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Hook
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
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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🔴 Circles
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
Circles is an abstract puzzle game that takes your mind off things. No words, no distractions: an invitation to experiment. Relax, let your mind wander and discover the puzzling possibilities of circles.
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Trauma
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.
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The Gardens Between
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Turn on the lights carefully.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
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Turn on the light
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
Turn On The Light is a minimalist puzzle game.
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LX Patterns
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
How smart are you? The ability to recognize patterns is used to measure intelligence. LX patterns is a puzzle game in which you have to identify different patterns while listening to a relaxing soundtrack.
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Turn on all the lights
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
Turn on all the lights is a minimalist puzzle game that features a recursive mechanics in which the player has to explore micro pieces to connect a circuit and solve the main puzzle.
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Flex hooks
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
Flex hooks is a minimalist puzzler with a relaxing environment. Move the hooks and activate all the buttons.
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Sublime element
Single-player alternative to Turn on the lights carefully — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Turn on the lights carefully.
Sublime Element is a logic-based automation game, where you build and program mechanisms to combine elements and create new ones.