Single-player games like TIS-100
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to TIS-100, 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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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with TIS-100.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
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EXAPUNKS
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with TIS-100.
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
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Prime Mover
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
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ABI-DOS
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
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7 Billion Humans
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
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Silicon Zeroes
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
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Comet 64
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
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Retro Gadgets
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with TIS-100.
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
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LogicBots
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.
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Last Call BBS
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with TIS-100.
Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!
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Eliza
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.
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The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
Single-player alternative to TIS-100 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with TIS-100.
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is here! Inside you will find all seven Zachtronics solitaire games, updated with new 4K graphics, plus one brand new Tarot-themed solitaire variant only available here.