Single-player games like Owlboy
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Owlboy, 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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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
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MIO: Memories in Orbit
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Owlboy.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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Alwa's Legacy
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
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Hob
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
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Titan Souls
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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SteamWorld Dig 2
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
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Metroidvania
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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CrossCode
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.
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Savant - Ascent
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
A malicious orb has cast Savant out of his tower and transformed his surroundings into dangerous enemies!Dodge and shoot your way back up the tower, and blast down waves of enemies as you make your way towards the top! As you progress, you unlock CDs that not only give you new tracks to play to, but also grant you powerful new abilities!
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Savant - Ascent REMIX
Single-player alternative to Owlboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Savant - Ascent REMIX is an explosive shoot-em-up / scrolling shooter, starring an acrobatic wizard on an elevator-ride. Unlock destructive spells & acrobatic moves as you survive through a tower brimming with robotic fiends!