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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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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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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Timespinner
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
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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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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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Lost Ruins
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Lost Ruins is a 2D side-scrolling survival action game, where you play as a young girl that has awoken in a strange and foreign place without her memories. Explore a dark and dangerous world, battle hideous monsters, and topple incredible bosses.
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Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
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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Metroidvania
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
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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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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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
“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.