Single-player games like hocus
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to hocus, 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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VOI
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Do you think 1 + 1 = 0 is correct? So what do you think about "black + black = white" statement?
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Osmos
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.
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Hook
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.
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qop
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
qop is a minimalistic puzzle which goal is to get the cube to finish using 4 directions in space.
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Unium
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Draw a line. A single line. How complex can that be?
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Linelight
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hocus.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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Yugo Puzzle
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hocus.
Yugo Puzzle is a minimalist, relaxing, and satisfying puzzle game. Move jelly blocks left and right to merge them with the same color. It may sound simple, but it’s deceptively challenging. Enjoy the satisfaction of solving each puzzle.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hocus.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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Stephen's Sausage Roll
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hocus.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
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Snakebird
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hocus.
Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.
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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hocus.
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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Recursed
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with hocus.
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
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macdows 95
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
you have an update for your operating system...
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Puzzlement
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
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hocus 2
Single-player alternative to hocus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
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