Single-player games like 异常 | Exception
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to 异常 | Exception, 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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import robots
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 异常 | Exception.
Program robots in Python to collect resources scattered across each planet, dodging hazards along the way. Sharpen your problem-solving and coding skills. No experience needed — just learn as you play.
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Brave New Wonders
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 异常 | Exception.
Command a tribe of intelligent automatons that can interpret ANY customized instruction you give in Brave New Wonders, a factory automation adventure. Pioneer a post-apocalyptic world, explore ruins from the past & discover a mysterious reality as you make your automated factories thrive!
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Robot Programmer
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 异常 | Exception.
Uncover your hidden programming talent! Code your own robots with simple instructions to explore 40+ logical based puzzles.
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Block Line Engineer
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 异常 | Exception.
Block Line Engineer is a physics based sandbox machine building simulation game where you are challenged to create block lines that are as efficient as possible.
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Anton
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 异常 | Exception.
Help a sentient robot escape an oppressive society through your abilities to hack and reprogram devices & automatons in the world
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Decoherence
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 异常 | Exception.
Build robots, devise a battle plan and fight alongside them!
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Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 异常 | Exception.
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
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GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 异常 | Exception.
Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.
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7 Billion Humans
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 异常 | Exception.
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 异常 | Exception.
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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The Forgotten Concluder
Single-player alternative to 异常 | Exception — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
“The Forgotten Concluder” is a third person perspective 3D Role-playing game base on the ancient Chinese fantasy wu-xia world. Being a young teenager Shen Zi-Jun that grew in a isolated valley, taking on a adventure to discover a great secret and his true dentity.