Single-player games like Lightmatter
Below are 11 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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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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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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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.
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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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ChromaGun
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Then you qualify!
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Viewfinder
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightmatter.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
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Lab Rat
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lightmatter.
A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.
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Superliminal
Single-player alternative to Lightmatter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lightmatter.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
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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.