Single-player games like Tempus Bound
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Tempus Bound, 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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Impossible Mission Revisited
Single-player alternative to Tempus Bound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Tempus Bound.
“Stay a while, stay FOREVER!” Race against the clock to gather the pieces of a secret password, platforming through 32 rooms and dodging 90 different deadly robot guards to stop the evil plans of the sinister Elvin Atombender in this all-time classic, now remastered for Steam.
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Upstream
Single-player alternative to Tempus Bound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tempus Bound.
Play as a salmon journeying home in this challenging physics based platformer using only two buttons! Remember that on a voyage through innumerable obstacles and constant danger, it is your reaction to adversity that determines your success.
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Pecker
Single-player alternative to Tempus Bound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tempus Bound.
Pecker offers a unique climbing mechanic in a colorful world filled with puzzles and some enemies.
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Bananarang: The Scattered Shards
Single-player alternative to Tempus Bound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tempus Bound.
The coolest, weirdest, wackiest and most fun 2D platforming game you'll ever play!
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Coffee Break: A sip away from doom
Single-player alternative to Tempus Bound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tempus Bound.
"Coffee Break" is a 2D platformer and puzzle game that focus on changes in camera perspective. The game tracks the story of Oliver Onofre, a brilliant scientist that likes coffee and builds lots of machines. However, his latest invention ended causing great problems.
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Treasures of the Aegean
Single-player alternative to Tempus Bound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tempus Bound.
What happened to the Minoan civilization? Join parkour master Marie Taylor and treasure hunter James Andrew in a historical action thriller, as they unveil the secrets of a forgotten kingdom which has been tragically trapped in and endless time loop.
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Redactem
Single-player alternative to Tempus Bound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tempus Bound.
Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.
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Teslagrad 2
Single-player alternative to Tempus Bound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tempus Bound.
Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.