Single-player games like Orb Overload
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Orb Overload, 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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Indirection
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Orb Overload.
A challenging puzzle platformer where you can only move in one direction.
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Bubbles The Octopus
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Orb Overload.
A merciless platformer where you play as a cute octopus named Bubbles, collecting pearls and failing countless times against mean, downright unfair traps. Perfect your controls, defy vicious obstacles, and challenge your nerves.
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SkyDungeon Shinobigaeshi Peak
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Orb Overload.
A tough 30–60 second ninja precision platformer built for fast retries, speedruns, and brutal custom levels. Master jumps, dashes, wall moves, and frog assists across 150+ bite-sized courses, then create and share your own trials through Steam Workshop.
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ExtraGalactica
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Orb Overload.
Slow time to a crawl as you pilot your super charged space craft through randomly generated waves of enemies, defeat huge bosses, and explore a cyberpunk planet with a flunking college football captain and his team's feline mascot Nova!
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Delta 78: The Passenger
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Orb Overload.
A crew member wakes up alone on a silent ship. Something is wrong. Something is watching. Delta 78: The Passenger is a dark sci-fi experience with interactive storytelling and stealth gameplay.
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Cosmic collapse
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Orb Overload.
Lasers, blasters, black holes and a lot of enemies... All this is in the endless space, the expanses of which you have to clean up from enemies!
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Blokour
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Orb Overload.
Jump, build and fight through the dungeons of Blokour! In this puzzle platformer, you place and break blocks whilst solving puzzles and dodging dangerous traps. Featuring 125 levels, 4 boss fights and more than 60 different types of blocks, you'll venture through a wide range of exciting challenges.
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Captain Galactic
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Orb Overload.
Captain Galactic is a colorful retro sci-fi platformer where you ride a hoverboard through strange alien worlds, collect crystals, unlock abilities and items, dodge deadly traps, and blast enemies with your phaser.
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GRUEL
Single-player alternative to Orb Overload — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Go on a rampage in this endless arcade Boomer-Shooter! Gain the weirdest weapons and destroy all the monsters in the never-ending temple of GRUEL!