Single-player games like Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, 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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Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!
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Mask Quest
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
A platform game about running, jumping and breathing.
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Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
Control "The Nerd" in a retro-inspired action platformer! It's two games in one, remixed and rebalanced to bring you the ultimate experience of Nerd Rage. Featuring stylized pixel art inspired by classic games, a highly energetic soundtrack, and challenging levels -- plus a special NEW chapter!
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Abathor
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
Abathor is a challenging 2D action platformer for solo play or up to 4 players. Embark on an epic 16-bit quest inspired by Golden Axe, Rastan, and Castlevania IV. Traverse Atlantis, battle demons, and defeat vicious bosses to save your progress! Enjoy an amazing OST from classic-era musicians!
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DLC Quest
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
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.
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Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
Potatoman will put your reflexes and worldview to the test as you journey through scorching deserts, dark forests, busy cities, the tallest mountains and eventually your own potato-consciousness in search of the ultimate answer. Are you prepared to face the TROOF?
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Horace
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
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Mega Man Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
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Mega Man X Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.
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Chip's Challenge (Amiga/C64/Lynx/Mega Drive/SNES/Spectrum)
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The classic brain-twisting grid-based puzzle game returns in this collection, including the original 1989 Atari Lynx version, three classic ports, and two brand new Sega Mega Drive and SNES ports. Help Chip impress Melinda the Mental Marvel by beating her 140+ tough challenges.
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Spectacular Sparky
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
A throwback to the golden age of white-gloved 16-bit video-game mascots, Spectacular Sparky is an action-packed platformer with wacky characters, explosive weapons and boss battles to treasure!
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MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
Retro platforming action in this adaptation of a terrible movie.
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The Rocky Horror Show Video Game
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
A strange journey
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Knight Terrors
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
A blood-curdling, demon-slashing dash of death! Knight Terrors goes straight for the jugular: it’s a lurid mash-up of side-scrolling gameplay styles in endless procedurally generated levels. Once you’re hooked, the game keeps pulling you back in to increase your high score and unlock more features!
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Terror in the Corn
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
The witch’s ominous chanting echoes through the corn field, a rogues' gallery of deranged monsters is out for your blood, an eerie mist rolls in from worlds unknown... and you don’t even remember how you got here. Can you escape the Terror in the Corn?
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Spaces Between
Single-player alternative to Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
A place built from things you almost remember... Inspired by the original unsettling feeling of the Backrooms, Spaces Between is a psychological liminal horror game about loneliness, memory, and losing yourself in impossible places.