Single-player games like Ink Inside
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Ink Inside, 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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Fablelight
Single-player alternative to Ink Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ink Inside.
A single-player, story-driven 2D fighting game with RPG progression. Slash through fairytale monsters, recruit unlikely allies, and choose your route through a whimsical and absurd hand-drawn world.
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DUNJUNGUY
Single-player alternative to Ink Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ink Inside.
DUNJUNGUY is a randomly generated action RPG dungeon-crawler with Rogue-like elements. Following brave adventurers on their journey into the DUNJUN players will find bizarre unique items, epic loot, and pets that buff the player's abilities and enable them to fight off the endless hordes of creatures.
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Young Souls
Single-player alternative to Ink Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ink Inside.
Young Souls is a gorgeous 2D brawler meets story-rich action RPG. Fight hordes of belligerent goblins, level up with hundreds of weapons and accessories, explore, and journey between worlds, as rebellious twins battle their way to save their foster father.
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Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS
Single-player alternative to Ink Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ink Inside.
Your best friend wants to cheer you up, so he tries his best to make a dungeon for you to explore. Explore his wholesome, weird-as-heck, scrappy rogue-lite oozing with charm and humor for 1-2 Players.
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#BLUD
Single-player alternative to Ink Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ink Inside.
Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Ink Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ink Inside.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Absolum
Single-player alternative to Ink Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ink Inside.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.
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Cat Quest III
Single-player alternative to Ink Inside — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ink Inside.
In Cat Quest III you play as a purrivateer in a freely explorable 2.5D open-world swarming with Pi-rats. You can sail the seas in your ship for treasures galore! But prepare for peril, as the Pirate King aims to hunt you down...