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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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!
- 2
Vessel
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ball.
Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!
- 3
The Talos Principle 2
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ball.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ball.
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.
- 5
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.
- 6
Bionic Bay
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
- 7
Switchball HD
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Ball.
Transform the Marble ball with metal, electric and lighter-than-air properties to solve 3D puzzles based on real-world physics in the quickest time. More than 30 challenging levels!
- 8
The Last Cube
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ball.
Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.
- 9
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!
- 10
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.
- 11
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!
- 12
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?
- 14
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).
- 15
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.
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UNREAL LIFE
Single-player alternative to The Ball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ball.
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