Single-player games like Maxwell's puzzling demon
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Maxwell's puzzling demon, 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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Gentoo Rescue
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
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SquishCraft
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Puzzle game about squishing blocks together.
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The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
An adorable bite-sized adventure from the creators of A Monster’s Expedition - explore the facility, avoid the live electricity, and repair the malfunctioning reactor.
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Stephen's Sausage Roll
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
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Can of Wormholes
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Push, slice, ingest, flip, and squish worms in this puzzle game in which you play as a little sentient tin can.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
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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Jelly Is Sticky
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.
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Strange Jigsaws
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
A game of strange jigsaws.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.