Single-player games like Dale Hardshovel HD
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Dale Hardshovel HD, 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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Pilie Pals
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
Lead a group of adorable creatures known as Pilies and help them climb and stack their way to the goal in this unique and family-friendly puzzle game!
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Assembly
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
Construct animals from pieces in new 3D puzzle game.
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Lonely Birds
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
A puzzler where you reunite separated PEARakeets with their match by clicking on pairs of animals to make them move towards each other. It starts simple but grows challenging quickly over the many available levels, all in a pretty, cozy and cute setting.
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Fill the Cat Box!
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
A casual 3D physics puzzle game, similar to Suika Game, Watermelon Game, where you combine cats of the same size and color to create larger cats. Fit as many cats into the box as you can before letting a cat fall out! Try to break your old high scores! Watermelon in background.
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Calmie Dots
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
Calmie Dots is a new take on the classic puzzle game. Relax, don't rush anywhere and just put all the spheres in the right places to pleasant, relaxing music!
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TatuBall: A Minimalist LoFi Puzzle
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
With puzzle gameplay in a relaxed atmosphere with LoFi music, you must help Tatu (an armadillo) to find burrows to survive during the seasons, but for that, you can only move when Tatu is stopped, and every new season, new challenges will appear
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Wark & Wimble
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
Eat food, hatch eggs and solve puzzles in this 2D puzzle game. Use the characters to arrange objects while avoiding deadly traps and enemies.
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SokoMatch: Lizard Saga
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
In this game, you will help Lizzy, a lovable Lizard, to match 3 or more gems of the same collor in order to solve the puzzles and clear the stages! Are you ready? Solve!
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Showing Tonight: Mindhunters Incident
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
Use your detective skills to solve the mystery of the missing film crew and finish the movie.
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A-Gents
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dale Hardshovel HD.
A-Gents is the squad of highly trained operatives and bounty hunters. Join Sean and Emma in this dynamic, non-stop-action game. Storm the compounds of contraband dealers and smugglers around the globe, and collect goodies.
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Ziggy's Chase
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
Never mind the plumber, the hedgehog is coming to Steam! THE GAME FEATURES CLASSIC GAMEPLAY, AND VR MODE AS WELL.
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interLOGIC
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
interLOGIC is a simple and atmospheric matching blocks puzzle game.
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Dash Fleet
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dale Hardshovel HD.
Dash Fleet is a simple and fun dashing action game.
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Mad Dojo
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dale Hardshovel HD.
Are you mad enough to prove your ninja skills in Mad Dojo? You’ll get a lot of headache and break a gamepad until you master insanely difficult obstacles, impress Sensei and earn his daughter’s sympathies! But we warn you - we don’t take wimpy players! Just do it!
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Dead Link: Pages Torn
Single-player alternative to Dale Hardshovel HD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Dale Hardshovel HD.
A single page torn from Amanda's journal is the clue that will lure Ellen into dangerous game of deception and greed connected to Grace Manor.