Single-player games like Shadow Lens
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Shadow Lens, 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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Frog Fall
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Lens.
Eskweenkleh Brahvoh, I made you to escape this labyrinthine prison. Forget their gravity; you bring your own. Embrace confusion; leap over the impossible, roll on, and, kohn ehl fahbohr dehdyohs, bounce high enough to charm the world’s corpse.
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Shadow Man Remastered
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Lens.
He is coming, stalking criminals in the spirit world and the real world. A possessed man is coming, a voodoo mask in his chest and lines of power in his back. Shadow Man is coming, trailing evil from Liveside to Deadside. To stop an apocalypse. To save your soul.
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Hob
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Lens.
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
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Babushka's Glitch Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Lens.
Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
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Eternity Egg
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Lens.
Chaotic adventure-platformer with bouncy movement, grotesque characters & high-energy trance music.
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Blue Fire
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Lens.
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
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F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Lens.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
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The Crow's Eye
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shadow Lens.
In an abandoned medical university, test your intellectual might as you unravel a 20-year-old mystery in this depraved first-person puzzle adventure, doing what it takes to escape your fate as a macabre scientist's human experiment. The ends justify the means in The Crow’s Eye.
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Catniptic
Single-player alternative to Shadow Lens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Shadow Lens.
Explore mouse-infested dream worlds as a cat! Grow magical catnip to gain powerful abilities, reclaim stolen furniture, and expand your ever-growing catnip farm. Reminiscent of Goat Simulator, Catniptic delivers chaotic, quirky fun! This psychedelic platformer never plays the same twice.