Single-player games like Duck's Despair
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Duck's Despair, 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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BZZZT
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!
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Slime-san: Superslime Edition
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
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Super Magbot
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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The End Is Nigh
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
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I wanna be the Creator
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
这是一款可以自制关卡的IWBTG同人游戏，在里面你可以体验到各种千奇百怪的关卡，同样也可以创作出属于你自己的关卡。
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VVVVVV
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
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Downwell
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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Idle Colony
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Duck's Despair.
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
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Breakthrough
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Duck's Despair.
Breakthrough is an hardcore roguelike-shooter with high risk/rewards mechanics. Help Clunky see the sunset behind the mountain by fighting tireless monsters. Both balanced and very difficult, Breakthrough will conquer the heart of thoses seeking a great challenge.
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Human: Profit
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Duck's Despair.
An accurate depiction of our world, baked into a short, classic incremental game. Take over Grandpa's farm, rebuild the town, and do whatever it takes to succeed. Also rabbits.
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shatAAAAp!
Single-player alternative to Duck's Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Exponentially bigger waves of cute animals require increasingly absurd means of destruction. Shoot, burn, electrocute, explode... and make sure no one ever helps you.