Single-player games like Energy Balance
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Energy Balance, 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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Energy Cycle
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
'Energy Cycle' – new puzzle game from the developers of ‘Energy Balance’. When you click each cell on the game field - it changes color, and the colors of adjacent cells horizontally and vertically. Your task to bring all the cells to the same color. Sounds pretty easy, but try to do it!
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Retention
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
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Bacteria
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
'Bacteria' - A relaxing puzzle game based on the rules of the cellular automaton ‘Life’ devised by John Horton Conway in 1970.
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Puzzle Galaxies
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
Puzzle Galaxies is a groundbreaking puzzle video game similar to games like Bejeweled and Candy Crush. You must match jewels stored in a space station in a manner similar to Bejeweled, but there's a twist - there are enemies that will come by and try to take matching jewels on you!
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Hiiro
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
Hiiro is a 2D platform game focused on ambient exploration and puzzle solving. Discover a grand world filled with mysterious artifacts and forgotten ruins. Become immersed in relaxing gameplay and meditative music. Remain observant as you unravel an explanation for your solitude.
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A Story About My Uncle
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...
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Braid
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
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Little Inferno
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.
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World of Goo
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Energy Balance.
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
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Make it indie!
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Energy Balance.
Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.
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Energy Invasion
Single-player alternative to Energy Balance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Energy Balance.
Energy Invasion - an arcade game inspired by the classic Breakout. Unlike the original game, your ball does not break blocks on its own, but can launch missiles in a chosen direction.