Single-player games like MURI
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to MURI, 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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Haxor
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Retro pixels are back! Good old 80s/90s style is back! Enjoy a classic 2D platformer with old era graphics! 16x16 pixel sprites and ambient, flat chip tuned 8 bit music! Guide Kla, the last survivor from Haxor planet, through the world full of vicious creatures, deadly traps and giant bosses!
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Super Dangerous Dungeons
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Guide Timmy the treasure hunter through dangerous dungeons in search of the legendary treasure!
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Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut brings hair-whipping, belly-dancing to your PC! Play one of the most critically acclaimed handheld series of all time, now with brand new features!
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The Witch & The 66 Mushrooms
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
An all-new Metroidvania-style game developed using Pixel Game Maker MV! Make use of a variety of weapons as you traverse sprawling stages on a mission to take back your brother's body from the witch who stole it!
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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.
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Gato Roboto
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
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Freedom Planet 2
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Commander Keen
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons: Episode 1: Marooned on Mars (Dec. 14th 1990) Episode 2: The Earth Explodes (1991) Episode 3: Keen Must Die! (1991) Commander Keen's very first adventure, and the debut of id's groundbreaking side-scrolling technology.
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Out There Somewhere
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Brawl it out with your Nickelodeon favorites in epic platform battles.
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Slap City
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Slap City is a Seriously Fun platform fighter with a perfect mix of characters from the Ludosity universe. Play Locally or Online. Slap it hard in Ranked or fast and loose in Slap Ball game mode. We are the original inventors of Clutch Technology.
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Card City Nights
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.
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Ittle Dew
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.
- 15

Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
An enormous Boss Tower has sprung from the ground, lifting entire towns up with it. Now, the people living on the tower are starting to contract all sorts of mysterious illnesses. Princess Remedy, still in Saturnian healing school, must use her powers to heal everyone and defeat the Boss Tower!
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Ittle Dew 2+
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Ittle and Tippsie crash onto yet another island filled with loot, puzzles and mysterious inhabitants! With the help of a magical map, they set out to steal eight pieces of a raft from increasingly improbable locations including beaches, prairies, an art exhibit and some dude's basement.
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Card City Nights 2
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Adventure and Cards now back together! And remember, it's always night in space.
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Bob Came in Pieces
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder – try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand!