Single-player games like 7 Billion Humans
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to 7 Billion Humans, 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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Human Resource Machine
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 7 Billion Humans.
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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while True: learn()
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 7 Billion Humans.
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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Opus Magnum
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 7 Billion Humans.
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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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 7 Billion Humans.
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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Kaizen: A Factory Story
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with 7 Billion Humans.
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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Automachef
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 7 Billion Humans.
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
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Linkito
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 7 Billion Humans.
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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A=B
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 7 Billion Humans.
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
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Little Inferno
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 7 Billion Humans.
Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.
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World of Goo 2
Single-player alternative to 7 Billion Humans — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 7 Billion Humans.
Build bridges, grow towers, terraform terrain, and fuel flying machines in the stunning followup to the multi-award winning World of Goo. The world is beautiful, dangerous, and evolving.