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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Hack Fate
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Hack Fate is a fast-paced, cyberpunk pixel-style hack-and-slash action game. In a flash of lightning, control time and space, switch identities, and deliver swift, fatal blows to all enemies. But if it's the heavens you're up against? Then you shall hack fate itself.
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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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Sands of Aura
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Return.
Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
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HAAK
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
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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 Maker
Single-player alternative to Return — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
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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?