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Single-player games like Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain, 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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    Anima Reprise — Steam game cover

    Anima Reprise

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    It has been one hundred years. One hundred years since you were captured and a plot (or rather a sickly joke) to take over the universe and overthrow the king was enacted. Now the world is run by literal clowns, and you must overthrow the overthrowee, and take back the honor of the king.

    2023RPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Chained Echoes — Steam game cover

    Chained Echoes

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Take up your sword, channel your magic or board your Mech. Chained Echoes is a 16-bit style RPG set in a fantasy world where dragons are as common as piloted mechanical suits.

    2022IndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Divided Reigns — Steam game cover

    Divided Reigns

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    The full-scale, epic fantasy role-playing experience you've wanted for decades--Divided Reigns retains what made the JRPG classics so fantastic while still feeling fresh. Expect strategic battles, an epic scale, well-developed characters, and a deep and emotional story. Perfect for your Steam Deck!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    位面穿越者-三国传(A Bit Crosser-Three Kingdoms) — Steam game cover

    位面穿越者-三国传(A Bit Crosser-Three Kingdoms)

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    This is a RPG game of training multi heros , you could collect as many as forty generals to fight together , you would unlock more generals under attacking city and develop it ,Collect special weapons from special events。co-ordinate the different generals to beat the boss .

    2017StrategyRPG0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Disc Creatures — Steam game cover

    Disc Creatures

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Humans live alongside creatures, each with different personalities, abilities, and moral codes. The invention of the DiscKid has changed life for everyone. Humans can copy creatures and use their power to help others and solve mysteries around the world.

    2019IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 — Steam game cover

    Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    The Startling Developments Detective Agency springs into action as On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 begins, set in motion by a call from a mysterious source. The ever escalating perils on the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will season our tender heroes to their very core!

    2012IndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 — Steam game cover

    Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Penny Arcade’s “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4” concludes the saga of Tycho Brahe, Scion of The Long Project, and his almost certainly human partner Jonathan Gabriel. The world has been destroyed, but existence extends beyond this mortal plane in the gruesome Underhell!

    2013IndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Doom & Destiny — Steam game cover

    Doom & Destiny

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Be ready for the nerdiest adventure of your life! Journey with four everyday friends into this turn based hilarious jrpg filled with parodies and cameos! Explore a huge fantasy world full of secrets, monsters, dungeons and preposterous villains! Nerds are storming fantasy and it's awesome!

    2015IndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Solenars Edge Rebirth — Steam game cover

    Solenars Edge Rebirth

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Three lost orphans band together to set out on a journey that transcends the boundaries of imagination and retrieve the pieces of a legendary gem, all while keeping the darkness at bay alongside a colorful cast of unique characters.

    2017IndieRPGFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Restoration — Steam game cover

    Restoration

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Two siblings; Oliver and Penello, answer their dying Grandma's wish and make their way to Phren Village. A seemingly peaceful village filled with tranquility. But on the inside, It is a village void of hope and on the brink of succumbing to despair and darkness.

    2017IndieRPGFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Luvocious — Steam game cover

    Luvocious

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Luvocious is not just one, but three different stories with three different worlds spanning across three different eras. Experience a modern high school student's life in a Japanese inspired town. Battle monsters in the past as a Princess and explore a spooky research facility on the moon in deep space.

    2018IndieAdventureRPG12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Solenars Edge Heroes — Steam game cover

    Solenars Edge Heroes

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Answer the call and fight! Choose your side-kick and form a team from over 60 playable characters as you fight to become the greatest Hero in all of Alcornagia.

    2018IndieRPGFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Falnarion Tactics — Steam game cover

    Falnarion Tactics

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Falnarion Tactics is an SRPG that is reminiscent of classic Fire Emblem games. Take control of Felm and Momo as they separately lead the group of Shelminai into war alongside the allied kingdoms of Kessania and Inelda against the Garfarian Empire.

    2019StrategyRPG7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Estellium Legends — Steam game cover

    Estellium Legends

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    Create your character and enter the arena. Fight your way to the top and become the greatest legend of all time. There are 40+ characters to hire and multiple spells to acquire. Utilize several classes and gear as you carve your name in all of Estellium.

    2019RPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Falnarion Tactics II — Steam game cover

    Falnarion Tactics II

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain.

    The story of Nerfelo continues with Falnarion Tactics II. Revisit old areas and discover new ones. Fight alongside friends old and new as you play as Tolem, leader of The Black Order. A group clan-destined to defeat the totalitarian Kingdom of Inelda.

    2019StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aeloren Tactics — Steam game cover

    Aeloren Tactics

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Boy: The Legend of Tain — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A young bandit girl with amnesia must fight to find the truth of her past as she is caught in-between two factions in the midst of war.

    2020Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →