Single-player games like Maxwell's puzzling demon
Below are 11 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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Box or Void
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Walls become empty space. Empty space becomes walls. Box or Void is a puzzle game about reversing positive and negative space. Obstacles in one space become pathways in the other.
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Snakeloop
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Snakeloop is a challenging puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.
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Block Buster Billy
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
An alien family had a picnic on Billy's island. They had to leave in a hurry, causing Junior to forget his cubes. Can you help Billy figure out the mind-boggling alien puzzles?
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Keystones: Foundations
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Keystones is a cerebral 3D puzzle game focused on spatial reasoning. Manipulate voxel blocks through sliding, rotating, and tumbling to solve intricate grid-based challenges. Master the logic of movement and orientation to unlock the path forward in a minimalist, atmospheric world.
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ScaleBox
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
A sokoban-like game that you and the boxes may occupy more than one grid. You can push boxes as long as their total size does not exceed your own. With portal you can get bigger, smaller, or... make some more imaginative moves.
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Sokosignal
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Sokosignal is a puzzle game in which you send a signal with each move you make.
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Abridge
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Control colorful shape filled pieces by moving, pushing and pulling them around to solve puzzles. Learn the rules. Investigate the interactions and synergies. Uncover surprising solutions.
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CLONY
Single-player alternative to Maxwell's puzzling demon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
CLONY is a gravity-defying Sokoban-style 2D puzzle game. Players can create clones above their own heads, and all clones move in the same direction. The game is cleared when all yellow buttons are pressed at the same time. Test your own puzzle skills with these minimalistic puzzles.
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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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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.
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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!