Single-player games like Rochard
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Rochard, 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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Vessel
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rochard.
Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!
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Capsized
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rochard.
Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
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Defy Gravity Extended
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rochard.
Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.
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And Yet It Moves
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rochard.
And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.
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Headlander
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rochard.
Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their minds into robotic imposter bodies and are ruled by a computer.
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The Swapper
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rochard.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
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Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rochard.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
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Teslagrad
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rochard.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
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Half-Life 2
Single-player alternative to Rochard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rochard.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.