Single-player games like Inside The Gear
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Inside The Gear, 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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Cogs
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently. Inventor Mode: Starting with simple puzzles, players are introduced to the widgets that are used to build machines gears, pipes,...
- 2
Score a goal (Physical football)
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
It's a physical game, whose main task is to score the ball into the goal. On your side and against you, only the laws of physics. All the controls in the game by using the computer mouse. Depending on the level will be various conditions of interaction of the player with the surrounding world.
- 3
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.
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Fly in the House
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
There’s a fly in your apartment! Hunt it down and squish it! Damn, that fly is fast! If a fly swat won’t get it, use furniture. If that doesn’t work, use anything you can find… just squish it! The more you smash, the more points you earn.
- 5
Deleveled
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Master momentum in this unique jumping game that features no jump button! Preserve your potential energy and fall to new heights as you solve these clever puzzles and maneuver your way to victory.
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
- 7
Unmechanical
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!
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Poly Bridge
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
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!
- 9
Somewhere on Zibylon
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
The game is filled to the brim with the atmosphere of cold space and zero gravity, features unusual game mechanics with a lot of puzzles, exploration, stealth, resource extraction, crafting, fights with alien forces and seizing space stations!
- 10
Bars and Balance
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
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Elbub
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
You are a bubble, flying among other bubbles. Relax and go on a journey!
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Balls and Magnets
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
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Pixelpunk XL
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
Pixelpunk XL is a pixelated old school first person shooter with rogue-like game mechanics set in sci-fi environment.
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Smile'N'Slide
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
A fun and colorful game about a little dude who loves to play the ape in his day-to-day life by sliding on inclined surfaces.
- 15
Zibbs - Alien Survival
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
Zibbs - Alien Survival is an open world game where you play as an alien trying to survive on the unknown planet - Earth.