Single-player games like Baba Is You
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Baba Is You, 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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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
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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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
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Patrick's Parabox
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.
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Linkito
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
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Jelly Is Sticky
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.
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Gentoo Rescue
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
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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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Infinifactory
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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World of Goo
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
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A Solitaire Mystery
Single-player alternative to Baba Is You — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Baba Is You.
A collection of mysterious solitaires. The solitaires included vary from fairly standard cardgames to funky reimplementations of other games in solitaire form.