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Single-player games like The Knightling

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Knightling, 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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    Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara — Steam game cover

    Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Knightling.

    Join Koa and Napopo on a 3D platformer adventure through the islands of Mara! Outwit traps, explore the ocean, maneuver dangerous environments, and have fun in 8 wild worlds on their quest to recover stolen pirate loot.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    An Eternity Gone By — Steam game cover

    An Eternity Gone By

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    Use your telekinetic powers to hurl watermelons, lamp posts, toilets and more at the monsters roaming this strange yet familiar world. You’ll take the role of Mirai: a young sorceress trying to save her friend from the monsters who’ve abducted her.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Exodus — Steam game cover

    Exodus

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    Save Moses' girlfriend from the clutches of the prince of Egypt, Ramses, in this thrilling adventure across the Egyptian desert. Face enemies and bosses, find items and power-ups scattered throughout a fantastic 2D open world full of challenges, secrets and much more!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MegaGum — Steam game cover

    MegaGum

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    Play as Uja in this colorful 3D action-platformer set inside the twisted candy empire of Mister Gum, where chewing gum powers the world. Run on walls, glide across deadly factory floors, fight bizarre living Gummies, and uncover the dark secrets hidden inside the gigantic GUM Tower.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pizzapocalypse 2 — Steam game cover

    Pizzapocalypse 2

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    Use your pizza to bounce, swing and dash in this 3D platformer! Explore different countries, and put a stop to the greedy corporation selling Pizza-in-a-can!

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gwen The Hen 64 — Steam game cover

    Gwen The Hen 64

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ruffy and the Riverside — Steam game cover

    Ruffy and the Riverside

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Big Hops — Steam game cover

    Big Hops

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart — Steam game cover

    Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knightling.

    Blast your way through an interdimensional adventure with Ratchet and Clank – now on PC! Help them take on an evil emperor from another reality as you jump between action-packed worlds and beyond at hyper-speed!

    2023ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rayman Raving Rabbids™ — Steam game cover

    Rayman Raving Rabbids™

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knightling.

    Hordes of crazed out-of control bunnies have invaded, enslaving Rayman and forcing him to participate in 'gladiator' style trials. Help Rayman win his freedom back by entertaining and outwitting these fury foes. Use the most hilarious fighting moves imaginable.

    2008ActionAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — Steam game cover

    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

    2011RPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Psychonauts — Steam game cover

    Psychonauts

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Knightling.

    A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.

    2006Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TUNIC — Steam game cover

    TUNIC

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knightling.

    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.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pumpkin Jack — Steam game cover

    Pumpkin Jack

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mars Odyssey — Steam game cover

    Mars Odyssey

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Mars Odyssey is a single player VR simulator experience. Land on Earth’s sister planet. Walk the surface of Mars in your living room and interact with full-scale, realistic NASA Landers and Rovers. Learn about the Red Planet, its history, and its geography in this interactive experience. Play time: 20 min.

    2016Simulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pine — Steam game cover

    Pine

    Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.

    An open-world action adventure game set in a simulated world in which humans never reached the top of the food chain.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →