Single-player games like Psychoballs
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Psychoballs, 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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Safe
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Psychoballs.
By default, the safe is locked with a digital code. Your task is to collect all digital codes to solve the puzzle and when all the codes are collected then the safe will be opened to get its contents.
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Lasertron
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Psychoballs.
Arkanoid with optic styled physics and different bonuses. Lasertrons can be reflected, refracted, decompose into a spectrum of lasertrons, change their colors. Clean the playing field by lasertrons!
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Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Psychoballs.
Are you good enough to make your country overcome the pandemic? Try it out! You're the president of a new country, In 1/1/2020 a pandemic started and you have to manage the country balancing 8 constantly chaging statistics using isolation measures or budget investments.
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Data Defense
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Psychoballs.
Defend your data servers from viral corruption in Data Defense - a minimalist tower defense set in cyberspace.
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Seven Nations
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Psychoballs.
The leaders of the seven nations failed to reach a peace agreement. All kingdoms are now at war.
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ShipOS 1994
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Psychoballs.
Are you ready to recover your family's fortune and rebuild the greatest shipping empire the world has ever known? Well if you are, then you're going to need the latest integrated shipping management system to get you there. Welcome, to ShipOS 1994
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Iron Frontier
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Psychoballs.
Iron Frontier is a single-player tower defense rogue-lite with the spirit of classic RTS. Draft a fresh army from random units and boost them with powerful synergies. Defend your base, crush the enemy, and make hard moral choices that shape the campaign and dictate the war's outcome.
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Malpractice Hospital
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Psychoballs.
Malpractice Hospital is a new take on the strategy simulation genre, that blends purposeful patient mismanagement and surgical treatment into one unique malpractice experience.
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Captain Backwater
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Psychoballs.
Captain Backwater is a fun puzzle game.
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Absolute Blue
Single-player alternative to Psychoballs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Psychoballs.
Sidescrolling Shoot’em’up that will transport you back into the 90s (and space).