Single-player games like Inside The Gear
Below are 16 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
- 1
Mirrors of Epiphany
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Use mirrors to guide light beams. Enjoy 100 brainteasing puzzles incorporating perfectly normal behaviour from two-sided mirrors. Just pure, classic reflection. No portals! And that's a promise!
- 2
The Squirrel & Sea
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
An underwater journey to the squirrel's past memories
- 3
Tidy Tidy
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
A casual healing organizing game. No complex controls—just click and drag to logically sort and arrange items across scenes, turning clutter into order. With no time limits, savor the relaxation and healing of tidying up.
- 4
Paper 2 - Origami Refolded
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Fold your way through over 100 levels and become an origami master in this casual puzzle game suitable for all ages.
- 5
ChaosTower
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Chaostower - Build and defend, a physics-based action puzzler. Build a tower from a whole bunch of different parts and prove it against several natural forces like earthquakes, wind and meteors. Defend your tower against artificial enemies, like robots, tanks, bomb-birds and many more.
- 6
Bridge Constructor Portal
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.
- 7
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.
- 8
Time in Time
Single-player alternative to Inside The Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Time in Time is a side scroller puzzle-platformer game where you control everything with timers..
- 9
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.
- 10
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!
- 11
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.
- 12
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!
- 13
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.
- 16
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.