Single-player games like Manifold Garden
Below are 15 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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Intraquartz
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Manifold Garden.
INTRAQUARTZ is a multidimensional experimental maze puzzler where you control a microscopic mining rover inside extraterrestrial crystals.
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Obversion
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Manifold Garden.
Obversion is a challenging yet accessible abstract first-person puzzle platformer set in a vibrant universe of cubes.
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Fake Illusions
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Manifold Garden.
Uncover cheating optical illusions, with your brain and eyes deceiving you at every opportunity... Experience these popular eyetwisters interactively like you've never seen before! This minimalist, but surreal game will make you question all senses you have.
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stikir
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
This game is about making this game.
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Hadr
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Manifold Garden.
Hadr is a short atmospheric game where you control a piece of flying fabric. Every single thing you can cover with your cloth, will disappear. Items, puzzles and story, they all have their place in Hadr. Are real things disappearing or just memories?
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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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Recursive Ruin
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure 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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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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Portal
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Monument Valley
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure 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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METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
Single-player alternative to Manifold Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by Kojima Productions and PlatinumGames, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE takes the renowned METAL GEAR franchise into exciting new territory with an all-new action experience. The game seamlessly melds pure action and epic story-telling that surrounds Raiden – a child soldier transformed into a half-human, half-cyborg ninja who...
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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.