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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Guns of Fury
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!
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LUNARK
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
A pixel-art sci-fi adventure set in the midst of a rebellion against a totalitarian regime, LUNARK is a modern take on the 2D cinematic platformer genre of the '90s. Run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through gorgeous and mysterious locations!
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Intrusion 2
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
"This is some of the most fun I've had with a game so far this year, and it will go down as one of the best side-scrolling shooters of all time." - 9/10, Destructoid
- 4
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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Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. Created to defend a totalitarian state, the Moonrider rejects its programming and now seeks vengeance on its creators.
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Valfaris
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
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Mini Ghost
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
"Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.
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DRAINUS
Single-player alternative to MURI — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MURI.
This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.
- 9
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.
- 12
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.
- 14
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!
- 16
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!