Single-player games like Hellgineers
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Hellgineers, 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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When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hellgineers.
Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!
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Tinytopia
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Hellgineers.
Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!
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Poly Bridge
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hellgineers.
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
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Tricky Towers
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Hellgineers.
With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.
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Slackers - Carts of Glory
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hellgineers.
Step into the wonderful world of Slackers! Picture this: you and your friends run out of drinks and the store is closing! Hop in a shopping cart, the ultimate eco-friendly marvel, master the art of riding an unpredictable beast, discover shortcuts as you pave your path to glory!
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People Playground
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hellgineers.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Puttler
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hellgineers.
Puttler is a mini-golf puzzle game featuring wacky obstacles and a charming backstory. Build contraptions to score the golf ball under par across 15 courses and over 250 unique holes to solve.
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Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hellgineers.
Become a ragdoll and create your own environments in Sandbox Mode, explore worlds created by others, or just flop around your destructible sets! Fun with Ragdolls®: The Game lets you enjoy everything you love about ragdolls!
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Cosmic Collapse
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Hellgineers.
Merge planets together in this puzzle game with soft physics. Can you make it to the sun? Can you merge two suns? Find out for science!
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Shadow King
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hellgineers.
Explore a mysterious castle in this pixel perfect metroidvania and take on the Shadow King! Upgrades, secrets, combat, and more!
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Golf Monday
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Hellgineers.
Partake in what seems like a normal golf tournament. But watch out! Your competitors will stop at nothing to win.
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Orb of Aeternum
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hellgineers.
A bite sized dungeon manager game that requires new strategies every time you play! Mine, build, and fight your way to success.
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Sunset Solitaire
Single-player alternative to Hellgineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Hellgineers.
Classic Solitaire with pixel perfect graphics and soothing chip tunes. Four variants with separate difficulty modes and an addicting scoring mechanism for unlocking card backs.