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Single-player games like isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey, 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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    Crypt Custodian — Steam game cover

    Crypt Custodian

    Single-player alternative to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.

    2024Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Constance — Steam game cover

    Constance

    Single-player alternative to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey.

    Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ITORAH — Steam game cover

    ITORAH

    Single-player alternative to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey.

    Discover the world of Nahucan in this 2D action platformer. You are Itorah, the only human in this strange place. Explore, fight and survive to uncover your past and save Nahucan from its biggest threat, a mysterious plague!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Laika: Aged Through Blood — Steam game cover

    Laika: Aged Through Blood

    Single-player alternative to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey.

    Laika: Aged Through Blood is an action-adventure Metroidvania set in a post-apocalyptic western world. Play as Laika, a coyote mother and fierce warrior, and carve your motorbike through a land ravaged by betrayal and loss as you uncover dark secrets in the pursuit of vengeance against oppression.

    2023ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voidwrought — Steam game cover

    Voidwrought

    Single-player alternative to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey.

    Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MIO: Memories in Orbit — Steam game cover

    MIO: Memories in Orbit

    Single-player alternative to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey.

    Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight — Steam game cover

    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight

    Single-player alternative to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey.

    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Planet of Lana — Steam game cover

    Planet of Lana

    Single-player alternative to isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey.

    In a world torn between nature’s grace and cold machine invasion, one girl and her companion must rely on their bond to survive and protect what they hold dear. Their story of hope, loss, and love will stay with you long after the journey ends.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →