Single-player games like McPixel
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to McPixel, 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
- 1
DLC Quest
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with McPixel.
What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.
- 2
Driftmoon
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with McPixel.
Driftmoon is an adventure-roleplaying game, full of exploration, smiles and surprises, captivating stories and quests, charming characters, and countless delightful details.
- 3
You Are Not a Banana: Better Edition
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with McPixel.
You Are Not a Banana is set in everyday life and has a sprinkle of imagination and humor. The audiovisuals (free OST included) seek to evoke nostalgia for the 80s and 90s. This short form experimental game unfolds as a sequence of thought provoking events and surprises.
- 4
Evoland
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with McPixel.
Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game.
- 5
Puzzle Agent
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with McPixel.
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
- 6
Puzzle Agent 2
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with McPixel.
Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
- 7
Fire: Ungh’s Quest
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with McPixel.
FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!
- 8
Broken Age
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with McPixel.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
- 9
Unpacking
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with McPixel.
Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.
- 10
Goat Simulator
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with McPixel.
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
- 11
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with McPixel.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
- 12
Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with McPixel.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
- 13
Killer Instinct
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with McPixel.
The legendary fighting franchise is back with over-the-top action, a wild cast of combatants, rocking reactive music, and C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERS!!! Choose your ultimate combatants each with fluid animations, unique combat tactics, and enthralling special attacks.
- 14
Brotato
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with McPixel.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
- 15
Human Fall Flat
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with McPixel.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
- 16
COCOON
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with McPixel.
From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.
- 17
McPixel 3
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with McPixel.
McPixel 3 is a mind-blowing save-the-day adventure that sees the titular wanna-be hero avert one disaster after another at every turn using unconventional yet entertaining methods of mayhem.
- 18
Mosh Pit Simulator
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with McPixel.
Mosh Pit Simulator is an open-world physical sand-box game about a world that is overrun by brainless boneless humanoid creatures, and even tho they're are pretty harmless, it doesn't stop you from getting in their way just fur fun. Abuse VR physics, punch, destroy, build and create contraptions!
- 19
Super Pig X
Single-player alternative to McPixel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with McPixel.
Probably the hardest game you will ever play. A pitch black platformer where the only way to see the world is to die splattering blood everywhere around. Packed with mind-bendingly hard levels, mazes, and numerous traps that you will never see coming!