Single-player games like The Maw
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Maw, 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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Fire: Ungh’s Quest
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Maw.
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!
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Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
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A Hat in Time
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Maw.
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
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Ms. Splosion Man
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
You got a problem? Yo, she’ll splode it. At the Big Science after-party celebrating the capture of Splosion Man, a spill of champagne shorts out the safety protocols on the splosionatrix and from it emerges Ms. Splosion Man. The latest creation from Twisted Pixel Games, the creators of Splosion Man, The Maw, and Comic Jumper, Ms.
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Pikuniku
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!
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The Adventure Pals
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
The Adventure Pals is an epic adventure platformer fueled by imagination, friendship, and the dark side of hot dogs. Your dad has been dadnapped and you, your pet rock, and a tongue-helicoptering giraffe must fight your way through levels filled with platforming, bizarre enemies, and big bosses to save the world!
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Yooka-Laylee
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Maw.
Prepare to be scared! A clash between the Flying Dutchman and King Neptune has unleashed ghostly mayhem all over Bikini Bottom. Switch seamlessly between SpongeBob and Patrick, combine their unique skills and save Bikini Bottom from total ghostification!
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Portal
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Maw.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Maw.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
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Tasty Planet
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Control a tiny ball of grey goo with the ability to eat anything smaller than itself. The more it eats, the bigger it gets! Soon you'll be able to eat the entire planet!
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LocoCycle
Single-player alternative to The Maw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Maw.
Newly self-aware, I.R.I.S. the martial-arts wielding assassin motorcycle, has begun a cross-continent escape to freedom. I.R.I.S.’s only ally is her engineer Pablo, who gets conscripted into the quest after his pant leg gets caught in her chassis. Hunted by the psychopathic motorcycle S.P.I.K.E. and a multinational weapons cartel, I.R.I.