Single-player games like MHRD
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to MHRD, 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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Silicon Zeroes
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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Comet 64
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
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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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with MHRD.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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Rogue Bit
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.
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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with MHRD.
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
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Durak!
Single-player alternative to MHRD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MHRD.
Durak is a classical Russian card game. While it requires strategical thinking, cheating is also a viable strategy as long as you don't get caught. In the same spirit pay attention to your opponents or else you might get tricked and be left as the Durak! The game is best enjoyed with 1 to 5 friends.