Single-player games like Stacking
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Stacking, 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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Costume Quest
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stacking.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.
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Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacking.
You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!
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Fire: Ungh’s Quest
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stacking.
FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!
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A Short Hike
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stacking.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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Donut County
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stacking.
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
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Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stacking.
Pirate heroine Nelly Cootalot takes on the villainous Baron Widebeard in this point and click adventure game. Meet a hilarious cast of characters including Tom Baker (Dr Who) and face perplexing challenges in your search for the Treasure of the Seventh Sea.
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Syberia
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stacking.
Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.
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ABZU
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stacking.
From the art director of Journey®, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.
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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Psychonauts 2
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stacking.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
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Brutal Legend
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stacking.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
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Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stacking.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stacking.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Stacking.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Stacking — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacking.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.