Single-player games like Return
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Return, 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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Resolutiion
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Resolutiion is a zelda-like action-adventure, where an old killer and his AI explore a vast, mysterious world, full of mighty weapons, surreal abilities and gruesome bossfights.
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Hyper Light Drifter
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
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NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
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Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Return.
Bounce, vault, and fight your way through a whimsical world with the help of your loyal companion. Eat snacks, collect artifacts, and travel the world to stop Bonnie and her boney band of troublemakers!
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Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return.
Test your limits in this hardcore, cyber-samurai game set in post-apocalyptic Japan. Parry your foes’ blows with your weapon of choice and use implants to attack the weaknesses of unstoppable bosses from Japanese folklore!
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Golf Club Nostalgia
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Return.
Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.
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Lichtspeer
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
LICHTSPEER is an unforgiving fast-paced lightspear-throwing simulator set in an ancient germanic future. Get ready to feel that beloved 80’s arcade rush in this brutal, stylish and psychedelic adventure. Embrace the future, eat Strudel, play LICHTSPEER.
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Minoria
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.
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Platformer
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Explore a new world, traverse randomly generated seamlessly wrapping landscapes, fight or trap monsters, dig for materials, craft equipment, find treasure and trinkets to increase your strength, build a house to protect yourself at night, dig deep to find greater challenges, unique weapons and more!
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Metroidvania
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.
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Blood Running
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Return.
Blood Running is a stylish extraction shooter where you'll enter the cyber-wasteland, fight off creatures and bandits, loot valuable gear, and venture into the remnants of a world in ruins. Are you willing to bleed to survive, Blood Runner?