Single-player games like Balls and Magnets
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Balls and Magnets, 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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Oik 4
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
Casual physics puzzle.
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Sandmade
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
Look closely and imagine, do those structures fit together? Sandmade is a beautiful puzzle game that starts simple and relaxing but will soon challenge your brain and test your spatial skills. How good are you at visualising objects in your mind? Immerse yourself in the world of sand shapes and find out.
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Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.
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Hook
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.
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Zup! Z
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
Minimal physical puzzle with explosions
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🔴 Circles
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
Circles is an abstract puzzle game that takes your mind off things. No words, no distractions: an invitation to experiment. Relax, let your mind wander and discover the puzzling possibilities of circles.
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Score a goal (Physical football)
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
It's a physical game, whose main task is to score the ball into the goal. On your side and against you, only the laws of physics. All the controls in the game by using the computer mouse. Depending on the level will be various conditions of interaction of the player with the surrounding world.
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Kombine
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
Kombine is a minimalist puzzle game played on a grid. The goal is to remove all of the blocks that have borders by matching three or more of the same blocks together.
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Fly in the House
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Balls and Magnets.
There’s a fly in your apartment! Hunt it down and squish it! Damn, that fly is fast! If a fly swat won’t get it, use furniture. If that doesn’t work, use anything you can find… just squish it! The more you smash, the more points you earn.
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Inside The Gear
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
A physics puzzle game like no other! You are inside the big old machine. There are rusty gears and shafts all around you, along with interactive objects such as planks and cubes. Use each object and place the wheel on the platform – easy!
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Somewhere on Zibylon
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Balls and Magnets.
The game is filled to the brim with the atmosphere of cold space and zero gravity, features unusual game mechanics with a lot of puzzles, exploration, stealth, resource extraction, crafting, fights with alien forces and seizing space stations!
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Bars and Balance
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
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Elbub
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Balls and Magnets.
You are a bubble, flying among other bubbles. Relax and go on a journey!
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Pixelpunk XL
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Balls and Magnets.
Pixelpunk XL is a pixelated old school first person shooter with rogue-like game mechanics set in sci-fi environment.
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Smile'N'Slide
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Balls and Magnets.
A fun and colorful game about a little dude who loves to play the ape in his day-to-day life by sliding on inclined surfaces.
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Zibbs - Alien Survival
Single-player alternative to Balls and Magnets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Balls and Magnets.
Zibbs - Alien Survival is an open world game where you play as an alien trying to survive on the unknown planet - Earth.