Single-player games like The Games: Winter Edition
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Games: Winter Edition, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like The Games: Winter Edition page.
Ranked picks
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Skiing VR
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Ski anytime you want on perfectly designed slopes in VR. Find your way to the finish line in this arcade ski simulator and prove that you're the best skier! Enjoy different game modes alone or with your friends
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Checkered Flag
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
In this high-speed racing game, originally released in 1991 for the Atari Lynx handheld console, experience the excitement of formula-style open-wheel racing across 18 unique tracks.
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Bunny Hill
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Carve the slopes of the Bunny Hill on your skis in this fast paced physics racing game. With up to 8 player Online Multiplayer, dodge bushes and tag flags on randomly generated maps to reach infinite scaling speed with your friends.
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Snow Moto Racing Freedom
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Snow Moto Racing Freedom lets you take your rightful place on a high-speed snowmobile on Snocross tracks or through vast beautiful winter landscapes. Experience the thrill of racing so close to your opponents that you can feel the spray of the snow and hear the roar of their engines.
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Circuit Superstars
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Circuit Superstars is a top down racing game with a tactile arcade physics model, pitstops, and a pure motorsport approach. It includes 16 categories that span different styles and eras of motorsport.
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Ultimate Racing 2D 2
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The ultimate top-down racing game is back! Ultimate Racing 2D 2 includes new cars, new tracks, car/track editor, time-trial mode, improved online multiplayer and career mode, new settings and more.
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Ultimate Racing 2D
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The ultimate top-down racing game, with 35 racing classes, over 45 visual stunning tracks, extensive career mode, championship mode and online/offline multiplayer modes.
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Need for Speed™ Payback
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins.
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Rogue
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
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California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
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Impossible Mission II
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sequel to the equally-popular Impossible Mission, this classic 1980s action platformer sees you tasked with infiltrating a futuristic fortress, built to keep safe malicious mastermind Elvin Atombender. Now available on Steam for the first time, responsibility for saving the world rests with YOU!
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California Games II
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Originally launched in 1990 on the boundary-pushing 16-bit computers and consoles of the day, this bodacious sequel to the immensely popular California Games sees you competing in five awesome events: hang-gliding, jet-skiing, snowboarding, body-boarding and skateboarding!
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Temple of Apshai Trilogy
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this classic dungeon crawler, hack and slash your way through over 500 rooms with dozens of terrifying monsters. A true 1980s fantasy game, experience the frustrations and triumphs of the tabletop gaming inspired combat. Temple of Apshai is waiting. Silently lurking. Patiently waiting. For you.
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Battle Bugs
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
In this unconventional real-time strategy game, control a fearsome army of stink bugs, cockroaches, lightning bugs, ants and more in a miniature, pun-filled warzone! 56 battles with 22 types of Battle Bug await you!
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Jumpman (C64/MSDOS)
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Run, climb and jump from platform to platform to collect and disarm deadly bombs, but watch out! One single misstep will send you tumbling to the ground! With 30 different challenging levels to beat, experience the thrills and spills of one of the earliest platformers.
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Snow Strike
Single-player alternative to The Games: Winter Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Fly your F14-LBC "Rapier" on a series of air bound missions. Your task – to destroy the labs, bomb refineries, and stop the enemy convoys. But watch out for those enemies who are armed with heat and radar guided missiles!