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Single-player games like Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure, 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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    Presentiment of Death — Steam game cover

    Presentiment of Death

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    Do you hear that? Sounds of classical music and an arrow rushing by. Burst your way through the enemies inhabiting on different game levels and come out a winner. Remember, all in your hands — a bow and a chance to survive...

    2023ActionSportsIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into The Darkness VR — Steam game cover

    Into The Darkness VR

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    Into the Darkness VR takes full advantage of VR tech. Your skills will be tested as you uncover the sinister secrets concealed within a secret base, hiding the consequences of the AI experiments of today. Face the many challenges dismembering robots and using realistic physics to your advantage.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project: Nightlight — Steam game cover

    Project: Nightlight

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    Project: Nightlight is a VR survival horror game with a focus on immersive atmospheres. To survive the night you will need to solve puzzles and face the unseen horrors in the dark by using your wits and what little resources you can find. Will you bring back order or succumb to the chaos?

    2023ActionAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    It Belongs in a Museum — Steam game cover

    It Belongs in a Museum

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    It Belongs in a Museum is a Rogue-lite, treasure hunting, artifact collection VR story game. Join a shadow organization and help its weakened, resurrected goddess search for magic treasures to undo the curse they unleashed in dungeons, tombs, lost cities, and ancient ruins.

    2023ActionAdventureFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    System Critical 2 — Steam game cover

    System Critical 2

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    System Critical 2 is bigger & badder than ever before! Get ready to experience a platformer shooter like no other in VR. Blast your arm cannon and use guns, melee weapons, grenades,& shields to make your way through the carefully crafted levels with epic boss battles and tons of enemies to kill.

    2023ActionAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    System Critical: The Race Against Time — Steam game cover

    System Critical: The Race Against Time

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    Fun and challenging retro style run and gun platform shooter. Blast your arm cannon, use grenades, shields, and melee weapons, dodge projectiles and make your way through the carefully crafted levels. Discover secret areas and destroy objects while navigating obstacles and defeat bosses to progress

    2022ActionAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Yupitergrad 🚀(Virtual Reality Adventure) — Steam game cover

    Yupitergrad 🚀(Virtual Reality Adventure)

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    🌟 Brave dream of VR gaming. Grappling hooks, wacky humor, spatial stunts, motion sickness countermeasures, Dieselpunk adventure, space acrobatics, and out-of-the-box puzzles. Yupitergrad has it ALL.🌟

    2020ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot — Steam game cover

    Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    Wolfenstein®: Cyberpilot™ brings virtual reality to the revolution against the Nazis.

    2019Action19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pixel Ripped 1989 — Steam game cover

    Pixel Ripped 1989

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    Pixel Ripped 1989 is a wacky multi-dimensional homage to the early days of gaming. The player embarks on a journey into the screen of a classic videogame and beyond.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pixel Ripped 1995 — Steam game cover

    Pixel Ripped 1995

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    Pixel Ripped is back with a brand new nostalgia-fueled virtual reality game-within-a-game, this time in 1995! Help our hero Dot face challenging throwbacks to all your favorite 16-bit and 32-bit classics while surviving the struggles of a typical nine-year-old kid.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Duck Season — Steam game cover

    Duck Season

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    The game of your dreams just dropped, DUCK SEASON, a hunter with ridiculous graphics. Luckily, it's summer vacation and Mom just surprised you with a one day rental of it! Unfortunately, as you binge play it becomes apparent that all is not right with Duck Season...

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    YUKI Space Ranger — Steam game cover

    YUKI Space Ranger

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    YUKI is a new upbeat mix of bullet-hell and roguelike game in VR! Enter a kid’s wild imagination and fly through an anime universe controlling Yuki’s action figure.Endless Mode: Beat your Friends on Global Leaderboards for each Bladewing and intensity level!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Line — Steam game cover

    The Line

    Single-player alternative to Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure.

    “The Line” is great for showcasing VR for first-time users. This award-winning experience is a 15-20 minutes interactive story of two figurines who are perfect for each other but reluctant to live out their love.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →