Single-player games like Penny’s Big Breakaway
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Penny’s Big Breakaway, 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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A Hat in Time
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
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Frogun
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Join Renata as she adventures across a world of mystical ruins with the titular FROGUN! Frogun is an old-school platformer with the soul of the PS1/N64 era, in which your frog-shaped grappling hook is a your best friend!
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Demon Tides
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Race across open oceans and uncover a kingdom’s dark secrets. Expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear and modifying your move-set every step of the way!
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Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!
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Demon Turf: Queens Edition
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
The ultimate version of the 3D Platformer with attitude! Join Beebz on three seperate adventures to ultimately claim the Demon Queen title! Jump, spin and punch your way across the turfs with this Expressive Platformer!
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Pseudoregalia
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Deep within the realm of sleep, Sybil finds herself pulled to a distorted castle. Grow strong, and unlock new abilities to build up a deep movement system, fight enemies, find secrets, and free the weary soul of Castle Sansa, in this retro-inspired 3D Platformer Metroidvania.
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Big Hops
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.
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The Big Catch: Tacklebox
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Crack open the Tacklebox to show off your platforming prowess and fishing skills in this free prologue to The Big Catch.
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Sonic Mania
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Sonic Mania is an all-new adventure with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles full of unique bosses, rolling 2D landscapes, and fun classic gameplay.
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Sunshine Manor
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Sunshine Manor is an 8-bit blood-soaked Horror RPG that pits you as Ada. Dared to spend the night in the haunted Sunshine Manor she encounters ghosts, demons, blood-soaked horror and more in this prequel to 2016's Camp Sunshine.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
The Sonic 4 Saga continues in Episode II with the return of a beloved side kick and fan-favorite villains! Following the events of Episode I, Metal Sonic has returned to form an alliance with Dr. Eggman! To face this new evil, Sonic will have to call upon an old friend to help him save the day!
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Sonic Generations Collection
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Celebrate 20 years of Sonic in an all new adventure that delivers a definitive experience to Sonic fans new and old!
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Pizza Tower
Single-player alternative to Penny’s Big Breakaway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.