Single-player games like Fractal: Make Blooms Not War
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War, 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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Splice
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
Splice is an experimental and artistic puzzler. Immerse yourself in its microbial world and start splicing! Every level ("strand") consists of a number of cells that you will need to rearrange into a target structure in several moves ("splices").
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Auditorium
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
Turn light into sound in this multi-award winning game from the creators of Fractal!
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NightSky
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.
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Critical Mass
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
Critical Mass is an action puzzle game that takes traditional match 3 and brings it into the world of 3D.
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You Must Build A Boat
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
You Must Build A Boat is the sequel to the award winning "10000000". Travel the world, run procedurally generated dungeons finding artifacts, capturing monsters and recruiting crew for your boat
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Tidalis
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
Tidalis is a block-based puzzle game with casual appeal, hardcore depth, and an addictive new "streams" mechanic. The game is brimming over with riffs and variants on that core mechanic with 20 game modes, dozens of special blocks and items, and 115 levels in the adventure mode alone.
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Cogs
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently. Inventor Mode: Starting with simple puzzles, players are introduced to the widgets that are used to build machines gears, pipes,...
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Braid
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
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Intake
Single-player alternative to Fractal: Make Blooms Not War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Fractal: Make Blooms Not War.
Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and reflexes to the limit to avoid a lethal dosage.