Single-player games like Automaton Lung
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Automaton Lung, 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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Harold's Walk
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Lung.
Harold's Walk on Steam is a remaster of the original Harold's Walk game that debuted on the Nintendo 3ds in 2020. Odd and unusual spaces comprise most of your journey as you venture through this surreal collectathon.
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Demon Tides
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Automaton Lung.
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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Yooka-Replaylee
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Lung.
Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the collectibles to uncover. Can you help them rescue the world’s biggest treasure?
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Orbo's Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Automaton Lung.
Hop into Orbo's shoes! Run, jump and drill around your boss's office, make some new friends, and uncover terrifying secrets about the company you work for in this comedically surreal 3D platformer!
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Pru the Pigeon
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Lung.
Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!
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Big Hops
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Lung.
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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A Hat in Time
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Automaton Lung.
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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ReCore: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Automaton Lung.
From creator Keiji Inafune and the makers of Metroid Prime comes the ReCore: Definitive Edition, an action-adventure crafted for a new generation. As one of the last humans, forge friendships with robotic companions and lead them on an epic adventure through a dynamic world.
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MDK
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Automaton Lung.
ON A GOOD DAY, ONLY 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE WILL DIE. As vast alien mining cities suck the power and minerals from every major metropolis on Earth simultaneously, time is of the essence as millions of civilians are expiring by the second.
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Willful
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Automaton Lung.
Willful is a fast paced shooting/exploration game that takes place over ten worlds. Explore ruins, forests, other dimensions, and take down an evil organization as a small rabbit Will.
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Automaton Heart
Single-player alternative to Automaton Lung — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Lung.
Automaton Heart is an RPG with platforming elements where you visit obscure and interesting places while upgrading your organs and strategizing about which items to bring along.