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Single-player games like Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®, 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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    Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® — Steam game cover

    Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus®

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    Abe's peaceful retirement was shattered when visited by a vision from the Mudokon Spirit Guides. Abe™ learned the Magog Cartel was mining Necrum, the sacred Mudokon city of the dead, to collect bones to make super-addictive SoulStorm Brew.

    2008Adventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — Steam game cover

    The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.

    2009Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Day of the Tentacle Remastered — Steam game cover

    Day of the Tentacle Remastered

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.

    2016Adventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ — Steam game cover

    Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.

    2010Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Book of Unwritten Tales — Steam game cover

    The Book of Unwritten Tales

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.

    2012Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes — Steam game cover

    Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.

    2012IndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition  Double Pack — Steam game cover

    Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!

    2009IndieAdventure1.14 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Armikrog — Steam game cover

    Armikrog

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    Armikrog is a unique stop motion clay animated point and click adventure game from the creators of Earthworm Jim and the Neverhood. Unravel the mysteries of the fortress that holds Tommynaut and his blind alien talking dog Beak-Beak captive through exploration and puzzle solving!

    2015IndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prince of Persia® — Steam game cover

    Prince of Persia®

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia® franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey. Built by the same award-winning Ubisoft Montreal studio that created Assassin's Creed™, Prince of Persia has been in development for over three years to deliver a whole new action-adventure gaming...

    2008ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD — Steam game cover

    Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    You're the Stranger, a mysterious bounty hunter on a mission to bag the ultimate prize. And you need that money like no one else because there is something very wrong with your health and the only way to fix it is a very costly operation.

    2010ActionStrategyAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee — Steam game cover

    Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    New port for 2016! 60 FPS, higher res textures, higher poly models, improved audio, numerous fixes and improvements, and trading cards, badges, emotes and backgrounds!

    2010ActionStrategyAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty — Steam game cover

    Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    Built from scratch, enjoy breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New 'n' Tasty reignites the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee using the latest next-generation technology.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition — Steam game cover

    Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®.

    Oddworld: Soulstorm is the explosive second game in a brand new Oddworld Quintology that tells the continuing story of Abe and his comrades as they discover further crimes against Mudokonkind and look for the spark that will ignite a revolution.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rapture — Steam game cover

    Rapture

    Single-player alternative to Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieRPG3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →