Single-player games like Tailwind
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Tailwind, 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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Sokobond
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tailwind.
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.
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SOK
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tailwind.
SOK is a sokoban classic puzzle game. The goal of the game is to move all the boxes to their positions. It's not as easy as it seems. The player can push one box at a time, but do not pull it off.
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Isles of Sea and Sky
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tailwind.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
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Treasure 'n Trio
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tailwind.
Team up with a brute-force warrior, a nimble and wily thief, and a cowardly wizard with teleportation magic. Use all three characters with different abilities at the right time to solve puzzles and collect treasures!
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Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tailwind.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!
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Baba Is You
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tailwind.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
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Woodways
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Tailwind.
A puzzle game in which you guide quirky animals through portals in the woods. But watch your step, they all move at once!
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Chip's Challenge 1
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tailwind.
Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles. Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time.
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Slash or Die
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tailwind.
In this game you will face violence and extraordinary complexity. You will have to become one of three heroes to slash enemies or to die from their hands. What will your hero do? It depends only on your skills…
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EvilMorph
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tailwind.
Evilmorph – this is a platform game the main feature of which is a transformation into your enemies after killing them. After slaying the foes you obtain their abilities which gives you one kind of power instead of another. Will you be able to overcome all the obstacles of the grim labyrinth? Will you face against the numerous enemies?
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Slash or Die 2
Single-player alternative to Tailwind — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tailwind.
In this game you will face violence and extraordinary complexity. You will have to become one of three heroes to slash enemies or to die from their hands. What will your hero do? It depends only on your skills…