Single-player games like Lightmatter
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Lightmatter, 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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Astro Link
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Astro Link is a Portal-like puzzle game that takes place within the mysterious Astro Link facility. What happened to this place? Will test subject #602 be able to find out?
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The God Unit
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lightmatter.
The GoD Unit is a first-person physics-based puzzle game set in a near pre-apocalyptic future, featuring the mass manipulation ability and other familiar and beloved puzzle mechanics.
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The Awakening Program
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
A man with an incurable disease is cryogenically frozen until a cure is found. Upon waking, he enters a simulated reality to preserve his brain.
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Cartonfall
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
It was another night shift at your job in a warehouse, when a madman with a box on his head, took control over the complex. Now you are under his control, to get out of here you have to solve his wicked riddles and smash through his weird cardboard structures by using anything you find in the boxes.
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The Last Cube
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.
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Duplicate Dissolution
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Multiply your mind. Overcome a variety of trials using your trio of digital duplicates in this first-person puzzle game. Explore intricate, neon-lit rooms and unravel the mystery of the simulation and its enigmatic warden.
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Wanderer's Shade
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Embark on a mysterious journey in 'Wanderer's Shade: Path of the Void,' a 2D pixel art and adventure game that blends intricate puzzles with deep narrative exploration. Discover secrets, solve challenges, and uncover a story of forgotten identities in an enigmatic world.
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RoboBall
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
RoboBall is a spatial puzzle game based on physics and logical thinking.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lightmatter.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.
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Q.U.B.E. 2
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
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Relicta
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.