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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Transiruby
Single-player alternative to Phoenotopia: Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Phoenotopia: Awakening.
Explore the mysteries of an unknown land! ”Transiruby '' is a metroidvania game where you explore the world as a cyborg protagonist named Siruby. Slash and shoot your way to reveal its hidden secrets!
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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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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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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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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.