Single-player games like Sublime element
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Sublime element, 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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Linkito
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sublime element.
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sublime element.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sublime element.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sublime element.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sublime element.
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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Bombe
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Sublime element.
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sublime element.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Bots Are Stupid
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sublime element.
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
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Turn on the light
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sublime element.
Turn On The Light is a minimalist puzzle game.
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LX Patterns
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sublime element.
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 Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sublime element.
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 Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sublime element.
Flex hooks is a minimalist puzzler with a relaxing environment. Move the hooks and activate all the buttons.
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Turn on the lights carefully
Single-player alternative to Sublime element — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Sublime element.
A minimalist puzzle game about connecting and disassembling circuits