Single-player games like Lightwire
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Lightwire, 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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WhiteLily 1：丽丽公主
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lightwire.
男主角君彦是一名年轻的圣骑士，在一次返程归来时，他碰巧路过被恶魔入侵后的爱露村，同时巧遇了被恶魔追赶的丽丽。随着剧情的深入，君彦越来越意识到丽丽和整件事情的密切联系，而和丽丽在迷失小镇的冒险中，他逐渐明白了整件事情的始终，并决心一定要保护好丽丽（本游戏剧情有剧毒）。
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Battle Simulator
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lightwire.
Soldier to the assault! Deploy your troops and destroy the enemy army!
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The Bridge
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lightwire.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
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Tumblestone
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lightwire.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
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Train Valley
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lightwire.
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
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RUSH
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lightwire.
From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor belts, Warps, Stops Signs, Splits and...
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You Must Build A Boat
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lightwire.
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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NightSky
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lightwire.
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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Tekling
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lightwire.
Become a robot, save the world. Jump and dodge your way through 70+ levels of frenetic gameplay in the same vein of super meet boy and megaman. Collect the orbs to transform from frail human into mighty Tekling, defender of the innocent and enemy to exploding barrels everywhere.
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Light of Mine
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lightwire.
Light of Mine will leave your head spinning in terror. Experience 360 degrees of VR terror as you use your candle to explore an ancient temple with danger lurking in the darkness. Light of Mine is made by nonPareil Studios. We are a studio that provides better futures for adults on the autism spectrum. #PoweredbyAutism
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Light Rider
Single-player alternative to Lightwire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lightwire.
Outrun and out think your opponents in this color shifting top-down racer. Shift your car into different parts of the color spectrum to avoid obstacles and discover shortcuts.