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Single-player games like MIO: Memories in Orbit

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to MIO: Memories in Orbit, 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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    Nine Sols — Steam game cover

    Nine Sols

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BIOMORPH — Steam game cover

    BIOMORPH

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.

    2024ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hollow Knight: Silksong — Steam game cover

    Hollow Knight: Silksong

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blasphemous 2 — Steam game cover

    Blasphemous 2

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all. 

    2023ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Constance — Steam game cover

    Constance

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voidwrought — Steam game cover

    Voidwrought

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rain World — Steam game cover

    Rain World

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance — Steam game cover

    SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    The iconic SHINOBI returns in an all-new 2D action platformer with a unique hand-drawn look created by the team behind the hit brawler Streets of Rage 4.

    2025Action29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Neva — Steam game cover

    Neva

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GRIS — Steam game cover

    GRIS

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hollow Knight — Steam game cover

    Hollow Knight

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super Meat Boy — Steam game cover

    Super Meat Boy

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

    2010Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Metroidvania Maker — Steam game cover

    Metroidvania Maker

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aeterna Noctis — Steam game cover

    Aeterna Noctis

    Single-player alternative to MIO: Memories in Orbit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MIO: Memories in Orbit.

    Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →