Single-player games like THE BACKWORLDS
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to THE BACKWORLDS, 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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Fech The Ferret
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE BACKWORLDS.
Fast and loud parkour platformer where the faster you go the better music gets. Exploration with rhythmic subtones inside of a colorful open world. You play as a cute pink ferret.
- 2
Finding Frankie 2
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
Trapped inside a deadly televised game show, you must parkour through a massive obstacle complex. Wall run, rail grind, and vault past twisted traps in the final season. Win the $10 million prize, or die trying. Frankie is waiting for you and he’s not holding back.
- 3
飢界
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
『飢界』は不気味な異界を探索し、脱出を目指すホラーゲーム。異界の住人に食べられてはいけません...。
- 4
Sublimity
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
As field researcher Liam, you wake up dazed in an abandoned building complex. While searching for your team, you discover the dark experiments your employer has been conducting. Hide from creatures, piece together the truth, and try to find a way out.
- 5
Skyborne Terrors
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
"Skyborne Terrors" is a unique horror game where you navigate dangerous, dense skies using a mechanical aircraft. But the skies are far from empty! Demonic balloons haunt the skies, hunting for fresh victims!
- 6
Acanthoceras
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE BACKWORLDS.
A short game based on a Horror and Parkour mixup. Find Keys, escape monsters, Make your way in the ruins and fight back
- 7
Lorn's Lure
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
An android is led through a vast structure by a glitch in his visual system. Lorn's Lure is an atmospheric narrative first-person platformer with novel climb-anything mechanics and modernized retro 3D graphics.
- 8
Hatch
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
"Hatch is a single-player, first-person horror game. You find a hatch in your room and strange things start to happen to you. You are the target of psycho killers. You have to find the truth behind the hatch and escape from the crazy world.
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AUTO-CRISIS
Single-player alternative to THE BACKWORLDS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE BACKWORLDS.
You're driving away on a forest road, late at night, under a heavy storm. Your car breaks down. Luckily, there might be a gas station nearby. But a misfortune never comes alone. The storm has brought something else, something otherworldly that oddly smells of spilled diesel oil.