Single-player games like Space Climber
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Space Climber, 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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UFO 50
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
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Absolum
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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Trine 2: Complete Story
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
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Wizard of Legend
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
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Trine Enchanted Edition
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
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Infernax
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
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Heavenly Bodies
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
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XEYYEX
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Tribute to the arcades of the 80s, to games like Pacman or Battle City. Individual and cooperative game. Keyboard and Gamepad. Retro, difficult and very funny.
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MIBT
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Help the government agents in black thong to end the alien threat and the invasion of the machines. 1 or 2 players. Individual and cooperative. Gamepad compatible. Demo available.
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Star Tank
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Star Tank is a shmup with eighties aesthetics, a mixture of styles (Galaga-Operation Wolf). A difficult game that requires great control skills. 20 stages. 5 bosses. Various enemies. Become an expert pilot of a StarTank!!!!
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KONGEER
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Tribute to the arcade games of the early eighties (Popeye, Donkey Kong..). 1 or 2 players. Great difficulty and addiction as in the games of the past, but with a control more in line with current times. Help Sir Redhood and Sir Greenstone rescue the princess from the clutches of Kongeer.
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Ice Nosfe
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
Help the Van Helsing brothers defeat Nosfe in the lands of Transylvania. Use the freeze rifle to defeat the bosses in each dungeon. 10 dungeons await you guarded by Nosfe and his hosts. NES or Commodore style. Solo and cooperative.
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Football Squad
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
The great world football event is being held. What no one counted on was that the world would suffer the alien invasion and the machine revolution at that time. Only the most skilled footballers will be able to stop this. Destroy any alien bug that crosses your path with balls. 1 or 2 players.
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XEYYEX 2: Colour Wars
Single-player alternative to Space Climber — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Climber.
The space-eyed couple is back! This time they will use the ability to change color to fight. An arcade genre game that pays tribute to the first titles of the 80s. 1 or 2 players.