Single-player games like Little Orpheus
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Little Orpheus, 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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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Little Orpheus.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Horace
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
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BLACKHOLE
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!
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White Shadows
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
The wolves are watching! Venture through a captivating but brutal dystopia where our young adventurer Ravengirl will travel through this huge city’s brightest highs and delve to its darkest depths on her perilous journey of discovery and finding her destiny where hope seems in short supply.
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Vesper: Zero Light Edition
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Thousands of years after the activation of the Vesper Protocol, a small android crosses a fallen world, hunted by merciless machines, to control the power of Light and decide the fate of his race.
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Minute of Islands
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...
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Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
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Owlboy
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
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Journey To The Center Of The Earth
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
You love riddles and to combine logically? You love Jump 'n' Runs? You don't want to fight but you still want a challenge? Then you will love this Journey to the Center of the Earth! Control three adventurers with unique powers at the same time, or guide them individually in this narrative 2D puzzle platformer...
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Rapture
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Little Orpheus.
A procedurally generated dungeon crawling game. Form a party of adventurers, equip yourself with mysterious relics and prepare to face powerful foes as you dwell deeper into Rapture.
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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are the Nomad — an elder vampire awakening from a century-long slumber, new to the modern nights. Trapped in your Blood is a stranger’s voice. This entity, a vampire detective known as Fabien, will be your guide to 21st-century Seattle.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.