Single-player games like Xolotl
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Xolotl, 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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Leap Year
Single-player alternative to Xolotl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xolotl.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
- 2
Super Mombo Quest
Single-player alternative to Xolotl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xolotl.
Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.
- 3
La-Mulana 2
Single-player alternative to Xolotl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xolotl.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
- 4
Super Win the Game
Single-player alternative to Xolotl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xolotl.
Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
- 5
Mable & The Wood
Single-player alternative to Xolotl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xolotl.
Hunt down massive beasts and, upon destroying them, shapeshift into their forms in order to use their powers to save or destroy the world. Players with less violent intent can find secret paths to complete Mable without killing anything, including bosses.
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DOOMBLADE
Single-player alternative to Xolotl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xolotl.
Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains. Together, “Doom and Gloom” embark on a vengeful quest to unlock the powerful abilities and destroy the Dread Lords once and for all in this 2D Action Metroidvania.
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Astalon: Tears of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Xolotl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Xolotl.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
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Olija
Single-player alternative to Xolotl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xolotl.
Olija is a game about Faraday's quest, a man shipwrecked then trapped in the mysterious country of Terraphage. Armed with a legendary harpoon, he and other castaways try to leave this hostile country to return to their homelands.