Single-player games like The Ball
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Ball, 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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Magnetism
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ball.
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The Janus Problem
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ball.
A first-person 3D puzzle game where the player can reverse time.
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Reality Rifts
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ball.
3D platformer with a portal gun! Solve puzzles, exciting levels, become a master of portal travel.
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Quantum Conundrum
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Ball.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
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TIME BREAKER
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
TIME BREAKER is a first-person puzzle game with time control. Players tackle impossible puzzles by thinking how and when the time can be slow down to complete a room. This game features a strange brutalist world, an voice codec narrative, and things that are really weird.
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ThinkExplosive
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
ThinkExplosive is a small first-person puzzle-platformer about bombs! Throw bombs to overcome obstacles - or launch yourself to new heights. Explore the corridors of an abandoned facility and discover new game mechanics.
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Pyramid Runner
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
This arcade puzzle game challenges you to collect treasures from ancient pyramids, dark dungeons, and even Mars. You'll have to outsmart cruel mummies and dangerous gorillas, as well as solve many of clever puzzles.
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Now you can't see me
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
First person puzzle. Solve riddles by closing your eyes or blinking them. While your eyes are closed, time freezes and gravity has no power over you. There is a funny voice acting and non-trivial tasks included.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Ball.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ball.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Unreal Tournament 3
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Ball.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
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Surgeon Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?
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The Talos Principle
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Ball.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.