Single-player games like Human Resource Machine
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Human Resource Machine, 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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7 Billion Humans
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
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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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
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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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
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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while True: learn()
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
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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Automachef
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
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Linkito
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
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The Farmer Was Replaced
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
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World of Goo
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Human Resource Machine.
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Human Resource Machine.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
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Little Inferno
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Human Resource Machine.
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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Cobots
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Human Resource Machine.
Manipulate time and cooperate with yourself to solve challenging puzzles! Delve into a colorful world filled with a variety of dangers and unique mind-bending puzzle mechanics.
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Hack 'n' Slash
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Human Resource Machine.
Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking -- reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even rewrite the game’s code. The only way to win is not to play...by the rules!
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World of Goo 2
Single-player alternative to Human Resource Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Human Resource Machine.
Build bridges, grow towers, terraform terrain, and fuel flying machines in the stunning followup to the multi-award winning World of Goo. The world is beautiful, dangerous, and evolving.