Single-player games like VVVVV
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to VVVVV, 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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HAMISH
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Hamish is a fast-paced, momentum-driven action platformer where every step could be your last. Run, jump, and grapple your way through rising lava, snowy peaks, neon-lit cities, and more, mastering speed and precision while taking down ruthless enemies.
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Blood Harvest 3
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.
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Aborigenus
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Aborigenus is a small adventure platformer with RPG-elements in a primal world. Hunt the aggressive fauna, learn new abilities and fight with the whole enemy army. Choose who you are - a shaman, a warrior or a hunter. Can you save the flying islands from the evil?
- 4
Downwell
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
- 5
Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with VVVVV.
Bounce, vault, and fight your way through a whimsical world with the help of your loyal companion. Eat snacks, collect artifacts, and travel the world to stop Bonnie and her boney band of troublemakers!
- 6
1 Screen Platformer
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
- 7
Volgarr the Viking
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.
- 8
Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
- 9
Terraria
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
- 10
Deep Despair
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
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Blood Harvest 2
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
A HARDCORE platform game with lots of enemies, blood and explosions!
- 12
Super Blasting Boy
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Super Blasting Boy is a logical platform platformer made in the best traditions of retro games of the late 80's and 90's.
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Deep Despair 2
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with VVVVV.
Deep Despair 2 is an open world survival adventure action game with procedural generation and complete freedom of action: building, crafting, hunting, farming, livestock, brewing, cooking, traveling, fight, and more.
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Deadfall
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Deadfall is a dark, bloody, atmospheric, dynamic, brutal shooter in the spirit of action movies of the 80s and 90s.
- 15
Risk of Pain
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Risk of Pain is a hardcore puzzle platformer that challenges you to complete many challenging levels. Use parkour, wit and luck to avoid dying! Are you ready to take a risk?!
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Deep Despair 3
Single-player alternative to VVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVV.
Deep Despair 3 is an open-world survival action-adventure with RPG elements! Fight, survive, dig, build, explore vast worlds, engage in farming, breed animals, gather resources, and level up to the max!