Single-player games like Prime Mover
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Prime Mover, 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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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prime Mover.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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Silicon Zeroes
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prime Mover.
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Prime Mover.
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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Comet 64
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prime Mover.
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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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prime Mover.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
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7 Billion Humans
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prime Mover.
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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while True: learn()
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prime Mover.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
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Rogue Bit
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prime Mover.
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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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prime Mover.
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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Turing Complete
Single-player alternative to Prime Mover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Prime Mover.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles