Single-player games like Zeitgeist
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Zeitgeist, 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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An Eternity Gone By
Single-player alternative to Zeitgeist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zeitgeist.
Use your telekinetic powers to hurl watermelons, lamp posts, toilets and more at the monsters roaming this strange yet familiar world. You’ll take the role of Mirai: a young sorceress trying to save her friend from the monsters who’ve abducted her.
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Dystofarm
Single-player alternative to Zeitgeist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zeitgeist.
"Dystofarm" is an exciting sidescroller. Take control of a farmer with unique powers to harvest the souls of mutated creatures and customize your inventory with weapons, shields, and hats. Explore a mysterious world, defeat monsters, and uncover the origins of mutations.
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Gwen The Hen 64
Single-player alternative to Zeitgeist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zeitgeist.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
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Akimbot
Single-player alternative to Zeitgeist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Zeitgeist.
In the action-adventure platformer, Akimbot, blast your way through armies of robots, pilot spaceships and forge your own path to save the universe from impending doom! Set in a sci-fi world where only robots exist, travel the galaxy and experience non-stop robot mayhem and explosive action!
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The Gunk
Single-player alternative to Zeitgeist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Zeitgeist.
The Gunk is an action-adventure game in which you play as Rani, part of our duo of gritty space haulers. As they’re struggling to bring in funds, they chance upon an untouched planet brimming with life. They came in search of valuable resources, and it looks like they’ve hit the jackpot…
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Pru the Pigeon
Single-player alternative to Zeitgeist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zeitgeist.
Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!
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Mirror's Edge™
Single-player alternative to Zeitgeist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Zeitgeist.
In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.
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Automaton Lung
Single-player alternative to Zeitgeist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zeitgeist.
Make use of your special abilities to skate, shoot, and fly through over 40 unique locations. In a strange land with almost no information you must be resourceful and clever. Question everything you see and trust nothing you hear.