Single-player games like Struggling
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Struggling, 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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Chumps Chained
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
After a failed phishing scheme, two scam artist best friends are cursed by an evil wizard who permanently chains them together. In this 2D couch co-op platformer, join Walter and Jellybean in navigating through the wizard's mayhem and a surreal world to undo the curse!
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El Panadero -The Baker-
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Action Packed 2D Arcade Action Platformer featuring hand-drawn graphics. Armed with your fists (or a rolling pin) and a variety of bread-based boosts, fend of the Alien Plants, and avenge the Bakery they destroyed.
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Shell Corp
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Shell Corp is a 1-8 local multiplayer, physics based egg-centric, party game where you control, paint, and crack eggs! Using simple controls and wobbly eggs, play against your friends, or AI, in a series frantic mini-games. Will you take home the Egg Cup?
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Wheel Make It
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Struggling.
One wheelchair. Two players. Infinite chaos. Solo or co-op physics-based game about teamwork, clumsiness, and the unstoppable power of friendship.
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Hamster Blitz!
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Hamster Blitz! is a wave defense game where you and up to 3 other friends work together to defend your household from waves of devious rats.
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Gelly Break Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Gelly Break Deluxe is a couch co-op platformer in which you, as Gel and Lee, have to save the Gellies' home planet from Evil Blob. As a team, use your shooting and switching skills in challenging jump'n'run passages to survive together against the ever-changing enemy types.
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Nonsense Soccer
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Struggling.
⚽ Nonsense Soccer ⚽ is a platformer-soccer-hybrid for people who like chaotic local multiplayer games
- 8
Miner Ultra Adventures 2
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Our friend Miner is back !!! Amazing adventures with extreme difficulty, this 3d platform game will surprise you and give you a lot of satisfaction to overcome all the challenges !!! Be versatile and have quick reflexes to be the best !!!
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Earthworm Jim
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Struggling.
Jim wasn't always a studly super-worm. He was once just a spineless, dirt-eater with no real mission in his life...
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...
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Heave Ho
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Struggling.
Heave Ho is a riotous multiplayer party game for up to four players in couch co-op and versus play, or online with Steam Remote Play. Reach out, get a grip, and swing to victory — or meet your messy end!
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Worship
Single-player alternative to Struggling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Struggling.
Incite the end of the world as a devout zealot of an eldritch god in this Pikmin-inspired roguelite. Don the robes of a cultist, perform bloody rituals and expand your influence over an army of followers in this cute yet grim world. Is your devotion strong enough to please the Old Ones?