Single-player games like 99 Fails
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to 99 Fails, 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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Fox Wanderer
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 99 Fails.
Fight, explore, and collect. Step into the role of a wandering fox in this Eastern-fantasy Metroidvania, braving a beautifully crafted world fraught with danger.
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Feather's Edge
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 99 Fails.
Dash and slash through an innovative kinetic metroidvania. The Tower of Time awaits – a rich, handcrafted world fractured by the collapse of time. Slice through foes in tough-as-talons bite-sized battles, and master the way of the bird warrior.
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Dwarf Legacy
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 99 Fails.
A Bullet-Hell Precision Platformer. Climb up Vertical Dungeons of The Mountainhome, battling Swarms and navigating Traps. Uncover the secret of your Legacy hidden atop the highest peak and secure the future of your village.
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Almos – A Dream Painter's Tale
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 99 Fails.
Explore a hand-crafted Metroidvania where dreams and nightmares collide. Master fast-paced combat, craft powerful spells, and harness Color to restore a dying world while uncovering the truth behind the Dream Painters.
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NIPH
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 99 Fails.
NIPH is a stylish roguelite platformer with risky and intense combat. Slash, shoot, and learn and cast spells with more varied items as you explore a vast and diverse fantasy world!
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✌ Johnny Rocket
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 99 Fails.
A comic adventure introducing Johnny Rocket in an action platformer game stylized as a free-hand black and white cartoon.
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MONOMOON
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 99 Fails.
In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.
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Slice Overdrive
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 99 Fails.
Slice Overdrive is a precision platformer built on speed, control, and flawless execution. Carve through deadly player-built levels, claim leaderboard glory, and ride the retro-synth soundtrack as you chase that perfect run.
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Neebota: Zeebo's Awakening
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An open world party-based RPG and sequel to 99 Fails, set in an original fantasy world called Neebota, where Zeebo and his friends hunt for portals to our earth, uncover secret powers, ancient lore of their world and a vast conspiracy across space and time. With music by legendary David Wise.
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Fragmentosis
Single-player alternative to 99 Fails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 99 Fails.
An homage to 90s FPS and arena shooters with surreal fragments you combine for super powers. On steroids. And possibly something else. A fictitious cognitive condition marked by compulsive interaction with chaotic fragments of thought, imagery, and digital noise, of the collective human spirit.