Single-player games like Shift
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Shift, 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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Lines Infinite
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Beautiful & relaxing Numberlink puzzles.
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Puzzle Dimension
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shift.
Find solutions to 100 unique puzzles and experience the satisfaction of "Aha" moments!
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ISLANDERS
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
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Linelight
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shift.
Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.
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Akin
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shift.
In this puzzle, you only have to draw one continuous line. There are 96 puzzles on "Normal"-mode and 96 puzzles in "Time"-mode. Each puzzles can have many different solutions. This is game is Steamworks integrated with achivements, badges, trading cards and more.
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LYNE
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shift.
Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul. Connect the shapes. Fill the board. Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.
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Linelith
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Solve puzzles embedded in rocks and crystals as you explore a colorful, serene alien asteroid. Discover a few clever twists as you progress in this short and sweet puzzle experience.
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Oxytone
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Relax and listen to the hypnotizing world of Oxytone, slow paced puzzle game where you rotate hexagonal tiles with paths. Each tile can be used up to six times, creating tangled paths.
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Office Battle
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shift.
Welcome to Office Battle! Many workers will lose their job because a layoff is happening very soon in your office. That is why "Big B" decided to organize a competition and the winners gets to keep his job. But don’t think that it will be easy.
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Darkness Assault
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shift.
The number of missing in the city increased. People talk about the experiments on human beings. And now, only you can figure out if it was true. Especially because you have no choice. Mysteriously, you find yourself in a terrible location 40 meters underground. Your name is Katrine, and you do not remember anything about your past.
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Botology
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shift.
A company is currently in development of robots for the new generation - Botology, conduct tests for a new system for the remote control of robots. The purpose of the company is to help future potential buyers explore the remote space systems.
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Redemption: Saints And Sinners
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Squad of professional soldiers was sent to scout distant space station. After the accident, that station were evacuated long ago and all the exits were blocked with power shields. But the incoming signal from there made the Commander concerned. Squad's ship were fired upon and the survivors woke up at the station.
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ROMBY
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
In ROMBY you will earn points by placing 4 and even more figures of one color in a straight line. Earn more points and open all hidden girls. Trust me it won't be easy.
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Bad Day
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bad Day - an endless runner with unique combination of 2D graphics and 3D environment. Compete with players from all around the world. But do not forget that the difficulty increases as you progress through.
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GG Puzzler
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shift.
GG Puzzler is a classic puzzle/mosaic game. You gonna need to build full picture of the girls out of small fragments using only small reference and your imagination.
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Space Alliance: Frontier
Single-player alternative to Shift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Get ready to protect the entire solar system from an unprecedented threat - the D'Ahari, a race of insect-like aliens. Control an entire fleet of spaceships, trade with other races of an Alliance, and develop your own space station.