Single-player games like Little Orpheus
Below are 15 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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The Way
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
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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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PLANET ALPHA
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
PLANET ALPHA, a beautiful alien world filled with mystery and danger. Pursued by relentless enemies, you must harness the power of night and day as you struggle to survive.
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Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Little Orpheus.
PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...
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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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Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Little Orpheus.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
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The Plucky Squire
Single-player alternative to Little Orpheus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Little Orpheus.
Storybook characters discover a three-dimensional world outside the pages of their book and must jump between 2D & 3D realms to save their friends in this charming action-adventure.
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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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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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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.