Single-player games like Prelogate
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Prelogate, 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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Obrum
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Prelogate.
OBRUM is a strategic logical puzzle roguelite where you manage an unstable system, trigger devastating chain reactions, and fight to keep the board from collapsing. OBRUM rewards pattern recognition & long-term planning. You are not solving a puzzle, you are engineering outcomes.
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Regex Game
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Prelogate.
Regular Expressions (Regex) are a powerful text pattern-matching tool used for searching, replacing, and validating strings. The game wraps Regex into text-based puzzle, allowing players to gradually master regular expressions as they progress through levels.
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Prelogate.
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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PromptCrafter
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Prelogate.
Command line crafting game with procedurally generated crafting trees and programming-like automation.
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Droning On
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Prelogate.
Write real Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that don't end well. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie however you like.
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Pawn.OS()
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Prelogate.
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
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Terminal ESC
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Prelogate.
NO DOCS. NO TUTORIAL. NO ESCAPE. Tackle an evolving spectrum of puzzles within a simulated computer system using only terminal commands. Inspired by a bad day with a package manager.
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Prelogate.
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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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Prelogate.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
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DEFCON
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Prelogate.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Prelogate.
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Prelogate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Prelogate.
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.