Single-player games like Phoenotopia: Awakening
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Phoenotopia: Awakening, 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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Omega Mouse Zero
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Discover the Omega-Verse, a captivating multiverse crafted by a dedicated solo developer. Omega Mouse Zero introduces innovative 2.5D Metroid-Vania platforming and exploration. Dive into hidden depths, uncover secrets, and immerse yourself in thrilling action as you explore this vibrant realm.
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HAAK
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
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Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Sequel to the critically acclaimed action adventure. Experience a gorgeous new third person 3D view and embark on an epic journey that unfolds the mysteries of what happened 1000 years ago.
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Souldiers
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.
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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
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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Bookbound Brigade
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
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Alwa's Legacy
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
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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Owlboy
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
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La-Mulana
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
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Elliot Quest
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Elliot Quest is an adventure/RPG where players explore the mysterious Urele island in search of an ancient demon. With 5 dungeons to conquer, 16 bosses to defeat, and countless treasures to discover and hidden areas. Well-balanced gameplay easy to pick up but challenging to master.
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Aquaria
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Aquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater adventurer, as she travels from hidden caves shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases in search of her past.
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CrossCode
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
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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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Wuppo: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Play as an exiled 'wum' looking for a new home in this bizarre but charming world, filled with strange creatures, puzzles, monsters and political chaos.
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Adventure Game
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
A VR adventure game: explore dungeons, fight monsters, and solve puzzles to uncover the mysteries of a strange island
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Metroidvania Maker
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.