Single-player games like Slime Research
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Slime Research, 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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Water: Transformer
Single-player alternative to Slime Research — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slime Research.
This is a platform jumping game, you can obtain different abilities by transforming between solid, liquid, and steam three forms, thus crossing obstacles and solving puzzles. The workshop allows you design and share their own created maps with the players all around the world.
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GIGA WRECKER
Single-player alternative to Slime Research — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Become more than human and save mankind from total annihilation! From legendary developer Game Freak comes an action adventure like no other - manipulate the world around you and smash the evil Ajeet to smithereens!
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Cybermotion
Single-player alternative to Slime Research — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Early Access with Slime Research.
Cybermotion is physics based platformer. You play as a student project robot that's constantly beeing tested by its creators. Combine physics animations and poses to move through the levels full of obstacles. Upgrade the robot, build new levels.
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Rochard
Single-player alternative to Slime Research — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slime Research.
Fast-paced platforming action and mind-bending puzzles based on gravity
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Incredipede
Single-player alternative to Slime Research — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slime Research.
Grow arms and legs to transform into a snake, spider, butterfly, or fifty-legged horror - anything you can imagine. Control your creations in a fumblecore dash to solve each puzzle. Learn to swing through the trees, climb sheer cliffs, or even fly.
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The Pedestrian
Single-player alternative to Slime Research — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slime Research.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
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Sayonara Umihara Kawase
Single-player alternative to Slime Research — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slime Research.
Umihara Kawase is a girl who uses a fishing hook as a grappling hook. You’ll need quick reflexes to swing your way through the branching surreal environments. Use your brains to figure out the best way through. They say fish is brain food—you’re going to need it!
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Youropa
Single-player alternative to Slime Research — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Slime Research.
A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.