Single-player games like The Cat Machine
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Cat 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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MouseCraft
Single-player alternative to The Cat Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Ever wondered what a cross between Tetris and Lemmings would look like? Well, wonder no more, 'cause... MouseCraft is here! MouseCraft is an A to B puzzle game where players help Schrödinger, the crazy cat scientist, in completing his mysterious, mice-powered invention.
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Quilts and Cats of Calico
Single-player alternative to The Cat Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Quilts and Cats of Calico is a wholesome, award-winning complex puzzle game for 1 to 4 players. Meet adorable cats and sew the coziest quilts. Compete with other players in multiplayer mode, play solo, or delve into the story of a quilter sewing their way through the city of cats.
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Cat on a Diet
Single-player alternative to The Cat Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
Swipe and prod to claw away at wooden blocks, unscrew bolts, control powerful magnets and explode highly volatile uranium – anything to reach those cookies!
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while True: learn()
Single-player alternative to The Cat Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cat 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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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to The Cat Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
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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The Cat Games
Single-player alternative to The Cat Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
Do you like cats? Then this is the purrfect game for you!
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Linkito
Single-player alternative to The Cat Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat 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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Gato Roboto
Single-player alternative to The Cat Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.