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Single-player games like Josh Journey: Darkness Totems

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems, 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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    Shing! — Steam game cover

    Shing!

    Single-player alternative to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Battletoads — Steam game cover

    Battletoads

    Single-player alternative to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    • Over-the-top combat with combos and hard-hitting morph attacks • Wild, varied gameplay sequences for all types of gamers • Hand-drawn animation feels like playing a cartoon • Drop-in couch co-op for three players

    2020ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pulling No Punches — Steam game cover

    Pulling No Punches

    Single-player alternative to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    A classic 2D arcade action game animated frame by frame. Survive a fictional pandemic in a city filled with madness and denial.

    2022ActionIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues — Steam game cover

    Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues

    Single-player alternative to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    
Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show. Take control of 8 playable characters with deep movesets, combos, progression, real-time character swaps, ultimate attacks, and much more!

    2021ActionAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Absolum — Steam game cover

    Absolum

    Single-player alternative to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    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.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Unruly Heroes — Steam game cover

    Unruly Heroes

    Single-player alternative to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ogre Tale — Steam game cover

    Ogre Tale

    Single-player alternative to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Join ogre sisters Ran, Hana, and Yume, and their feline mentor, Iroha, in a battle against fairytale folkheroes-turned-villains via this action-packed tongue-in-cheek 2D beat-em-up romp set in modern-day Japan!

    2020Action13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge — Steam game cover

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

    Single-player alternative to Josh Journey: Darkness Totems — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Josh Journey: Darkness Totems.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →