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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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018StrategyIndie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lasertron — Steam game cover

    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!

    2020ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Data Defense — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019StrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Seven Nations — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ShipOS 1994 — Steam game cover

    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

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Iron Frontier — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
  8. 8
    Malpractice Hospital — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation0.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Captain Backwater — Steam game cover

    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.

    2017StrategyIndieCasualFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Absolute Blue — Steam game cover

    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).

    2018ActionIndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →