Single-player games like A Thread Between
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to A Thread Between, 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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Axona
Single-player alternative to A Thread Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Thread Between.
Axona is a grid-based puzzle game that brings the challenge of 3D cube solving to a 2D plane. Strategically roll your cube, match the correct faces to collect the keys, and unlock glyphs to solve each level.
- 2
Zink
Single-player alternative to A Thread Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Thread Between.
A unique puzzle game with serene, procedural graphics and timeless gameplay. Bump cubes into the ocean, until only one remain, and you have sunk the island!
- 3
Knight Swap
Single-player alternative to A Thread Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Thread Between.
One chess piece, the mighty knight. One simple concept: exchange the knights from one colored square to another. One hundred hand-crafted levels in a beautiful minimalist set. Can you swap the knights?
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Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game
Single-player alternative to A Thread Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Thread Between.
Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.
- 5
CUBOID
Single-player alternative to A Thread Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Thread Between.
CUBOID is a challenging spatial puzzle game with minimalist design, where you progress through a labyrinth of levels using a unique mechanic of merging with world blocks.
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Laser Lightshow
Single-player alternative to A Thread Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Thread Between.
Manipulate lasers through hundreds of handcrafted puzzles using mirrors, prisms, teleporters, logic gates, wires, and dozens of unique mechanics. Then create, test, and share your own puzzles with a powerful built-in level editor offering virtually limitless possibilities.
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Dataminers
Single-player alternative to A Thread Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Thread Between.
Get inside the mind of an ethical hacker and race against the firewall as you collect data, hack terminals and bring enemies down from the inside. Dataminers is a casual logic game, where you climb and clear towers full of data mines.
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UwUbUwU
Single-player alternative to A Thread Between — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Thread Between.
UwUbUwU is a small cozy puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.