Single-player games like The Gardener
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Gardener, 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
- 1
Chomp Garden
Single-player alternative to The Gardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
A puzzle game about guiding plants with light. Venture into a garden full of strange plants, solve puzzles, and find your pup.
- 2
E9uations
Single-player alternative to The Gardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Gardener.
You are the equal sign(=). Rearrange the numbers and operators to form equation and solve the puzzle.
- 3
Shrink Rooms
Single-player alternative to The Gardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
Run! The walls are shrinking! This is about solving puzzles by pushing boxes from collapsing secret room. Accurately plan your steps, avoid deep pits and traps, use polymer and portal wall in the room, and escape from the secret room to avoid being crushed into a puddle of flesh by the walls.
- 4
The Court Of Wanderers
Single-player alternative to The Gardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener.
Enter a world where you never know what you will find behind the next door. Wander, think, solve, and be amazed as the impossible becomes possible.
- 5
A Directionless Cycle
Single-player alternative to The Gardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
2D Sokoban game where you explore a game that's slowly degrading, while you control multiple tiles with different directions at the same time.
- 6
Snakeloop
Single-player alternative to The Gardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
Snakeloop is a challenging 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.
- 7
Block Buster Billy
Single-player alternative to The Gardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
An alien family had a picnic on Billy's island. They had to leave in a hurry, causing Junior to forget his cubes. Can you help Billy figure out the mind-boggling alien puzzles?
- 8
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
Single-player alternative to The Gardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!