Single-player games like The Great Escape
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Great Escape, 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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Forest of Strays
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Forest of Strays is a hardcore platformer with many dangers scattered across the stages. Try to complete every level while collecting every leaf along the way, fighting enemies, evading traps and getting through precise jumps! Can the lost girl find her cat and return home?
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American Christmas
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
American Christmas is a Mario-Megaman-Sonic inspired 2D platformer. This game aims to recapture that magic feeling you’d get when gaming during a time in the 90's when 2D platformers reigned king in the gaming industry.
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Pay Me In Colors
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Pay Me In Colors is a 2D platformer game with multiple mechanics, six different worlds and over 40 challenging levels. Face meteors, gravity changing, spikes falling and missiles coming in your direction while you try to recover the colors back to your world. A game inspired by the classics of the past.
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Keo and the Cosmic Crystals
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
Keo and the Cosmic Crystals is a 2D platform game with colorful and cute graphics, featuring high difficulty and precision challenges.
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TurtleQuest
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
TurtleQuest is a 2D-Platformer where you are sent on a quest to save your little turtle village from an unknown disease. You have to follow an ancient path through the old mountains, riddled with bewitched traps, to find the sacred plant Zingiber, which might help to cure all turtles.
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Jumper Jon
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Jumper Jon is a 30-second metroidvania-style platforming adventure!
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Legends Of The Eternal Flame
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this 2D platformer and see if you can brave numerous obstacles in a quest to save the world from eternal darkness.
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Arthur Loves Watermelon
Single-player alternative to The Great Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
Arthur Loves Watermelon is a unique 2D platformer in which you don’t control when you jump. In it, you’ll help a small squirrel named Arthur recover the Sacred Watermelon Tree from the hands of an evil witch.