Single-player games like The Basement Collection
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Basement Collection, 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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The End Is Nigh
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Basement Collection.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
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The Legend of Bum-Bo
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Basement Collection.
A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Basement Collection.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Basement Collection.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Terry's Other Games
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Basement Collection.
Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!
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Mushroom 11
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Basement Collection.
An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?
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LIMBO
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Basement Collection.
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Basement Collection.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
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Super Meat Boy Forever
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Basement Collection.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
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Unknown
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Basement Collection.
Darkness. Nothing. There’s no memory of what has become. All you have is a flashlight to navigate the horrors ahead of you. Use your wits to solve the puzzles and escape the levels of the dreaded facility. You don’t seem to be alone though…
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Steven
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Basement Collection.
Steven is a vampire-survivor-style game where you play as Steven, the swan. Use his attacks to devour enemies, earning points to upgrade Steven and make him stronger for the upcoming waves.
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Factory
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Basement Collection.
A short visual novel about an endless shift at a garment factory. Wonder what gets you liquidated faster: corruption, naivety, or immorality? Industrial melancholy, where nothing goes unpunished.
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
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Mewgenics
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Basement Collection.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
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Fingered
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Basement Collection.
GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!
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Gish
Single-player alternative to The Basement Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Basement Collection.
Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.