Single-player games like CrossCells
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to CrossCells, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like CrossCells page.
Ranked picks
- 1

Hexcells Infinite
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
- 2

SquareCells
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with CrossCells.
SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.
- 3

Hexcells Plus
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
- 4

Hexcells
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
- 5

Knight Swap
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
One chess piece, the mighty knight. One simple concept: exchange the knights from one colored square to another. One hundred hand-crafted levels in a beautiful minimalist set. Can you swap the knights?
- 6

Chess Brain
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!
- 7

Pictopix
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
Pictopix is a puzzle game where you use logic to color squares on grids in order to reveal pictures.
- 8

Filament
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).
- 9

Cracking the Cryptic
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
Curated Sudoku puzzles from YouTube's most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking the Cryptic!
- 10

Sudoku
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with CrossCells.
Play the classic Sudoku game for everyone. Fill in the empty cells with numbers from 1 to 9.
- 11

Cypher
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CrossCells.
Cypher is a first person puzzle game about cryptography.
- 12

Epigraph
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CrossCells.
Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.
- 13

Sentinel
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CrossCells.
Sentinel is an interactive audio tower defense game. It mixes strategic gameplay with a dynamic music system.
- 14

Sound Shift
Single-player alternative to CrossCells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with CrossCells.
Sound Shift is a VJ style music visualiser mixed with a simple arcade shooter.