Single-player games like Manifold Garden
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Manifold Garden, 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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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
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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Recursive Ruin
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Manifold Garden.
A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.
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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Manifold Garden.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
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Rememoried
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person adventure game.
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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NaissanceE
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
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Viewfinder
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Manifold Garden.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
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Monument Valley
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Manifold Garden.
Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Manifold Garden.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Starseed Pilgrim
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
Starseed Pilgrim is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate.You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with colour.You are a refugee, building your own world away from the spreading darkness.You are an explorer, discovering new places, new rules, and new fascinations.
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Sable
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Manifold Garden.
Embark on an unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerizing landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders.
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AER Memories of Old
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Manifold Garden.
Transform into a bird and fly to explore and experience a vibrant world of floating islands in the sky. Venture down into lost ancient ruins where each step leads you closer to the end of the world.
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Journey
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
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FEZ
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Manifold Garden.
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
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Gorogoa
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.