Single-player games like Silicon Zeroes
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Silicon Zeroes, 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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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
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MHRD
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
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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Prime Mover
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
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Comet 64
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
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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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
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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Rogue Bit
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
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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Manufactoria 2022
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
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Virtual Circuit Board
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silicon Zeroes.
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
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Snakebird
Single-player alternative to Silicon Zeroes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Silicon Zeroes.
Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.