Single-player games like The Knightling
Below are 15 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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Blue Fire
Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
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Akimbot
Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knightling.
In the action-adventure platformer, Akimbot, blast your way through armies of robots, pilot spaceships and forge your own path to save the universe from impending doom! Set in a sci-fi world where only robots exist, travel the galaxy and experience non-stop robot mayhem and explosive action!
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Yooka-Replaylee
Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.
Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the collectibles to uncover. Can you help them rescue the world’s biggest treasure?
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Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed
Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knightling.
Embark on a magical journey in Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed! Shape your adventure with the stroke of a brush and transform Wasteland as Mickey Mouse in this beautifully recreated 3D platformer.
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Mini Ninjas
Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knightling.
Mini Ninjas is a game that combines furious action with stealth and exploration for an experience that appeals to a wide audience across age groups and preferences. It’s an action-adventure with a strong focus on allowing the player freedom to explore the world and has the depth to allow for very varied gameplay and approaches to getting...
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The Last Tinker™: City of Colors
Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Knightling.
The Last Tinker is a joyous action adventure and definitely no platformer, as there is no jump button. Koru, a boy from the slums of Colortown, must rise and stand against the Bleakness, a dark force intent on wiping out joy. Koru must use color and emotion to restore life to Colortown!
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Duskfade
Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knightling.
Shatter the shackles of time as you jump, swing, and slash through a fantastic world in this love letter to classic 3D action platformers. Zirian, accompanied by his mechanical Cuckoo, must save his sister from a mysterious Clock Tower that has plunged the land into eternal night.
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Alice: Madness Returns
Single-player alternative to The Knightling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knightling.
Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.