Single-player games like OS:Path
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to OS:Path, 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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Drop Not Allowed
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with OS:Path.
Trapped inside a living database, use real SQL to unlock regions and challenge the system that watches every query. Use SELECT to investigate, UPDATE to repair and remember: DROP NOT ALLOWED. It doesn’t matter if you’re a SQL noob or a veteran; the game teaches you everything you need as you play.
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Patch me if you can
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with OS:Path.
Patch me if you can is a puzzle adventure where you dive into a game world and manipulate objects however you want. Equip blocks to shrink boulders, move the sun, and thwart Lord's conspiracy. This broken world needs your 'patch'!
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Shortest Trip to Earth
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with OS:Path.
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
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Prime Mover
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with OS:Path.
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
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Omnibullet
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with OS:Path.
A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.
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SpaceChem
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with OS:Path.
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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Robo Instructus
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with OS:Path.
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
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Great Permutator
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with OS:Path.
Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.
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Flat Path
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with OS:Path.
Relaxing puzzle game in a minimal style.
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Brave Path
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with OS:Path.
Classical turn-based roguelike with crafting and base building.
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Gear Path
Single-player alternative to OS:Path — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with OS:Path.
Gear Path is a small platformer Metroidvania-like game with exploring and power-ups. It's perfect for playing while waiting for another game.