Single-player games like Fantastic Contraption
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Fantastic Contraption, 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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Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
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Incredipede
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
Grow arms and legs to transform into a snake, spider, butterfly, or fifty-legged horror - anything you can imagine. Control your creations in a fumblecore dash to solve each puzzle. Learn to swing through the trees, climb sheer cliffs, or even fly.
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Crazy Machines 3
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.
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Hover Junkers
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
Engage in multiplayer VR gunfights that capture real gun play like no FPS you've played before. Pilot and fortify Hover Junkers as you physically walk, duck, dodge and aim in cross ship combat.
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Job Simulator
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.
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vrkshop
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
vrkshop is a VR woodworking game. You are challenged to build projects with hand tools without snap-to-guides or limits on how to cut or fasten the lumber. The precision of your project is left entirely up to you. Have fun. Be productive.
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Linkito
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
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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Contraption Maker
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Single-player alternative to Fantastic Contraption — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.