Single-player games like Rain World
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Rain World, 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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The Pale Piper
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Uncover the truth behind your death and your sibling’s in a story-driven precision platformer inspired by the Pied Piper myth. Navigate a decaying, interconnected world where movement is your only defense. No combat, only precision, consequence, and secrets hidden in the dark.
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Echoes of Nox
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Explore the Echoes of Nox amongst the war between 3 factions of robots. Uncover new tools and take territory as the dynamically changing rooms switch hands between the different AIs and yourself. Reveal the secrets of the past and discover why you alone were left in this station.
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Dr. Atominus
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Dr. Atominus is a short platformer with metroidvania elements and a cool sci-fi story.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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MIO: Memories in Orbit
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
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.
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Haiku, the Robot
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
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The Devil Within: Satgat
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Join Kim Rip, a Royal Guard whose humanity is gradually slipping away, on a thrilling 2.5D action-adventure platforming journey in 'The Devil Within: Satgat'. Uncover the mysteries of a desolate realm as you engage in stylish battles against formidable foes.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
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.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rain World.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rain World.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rain World.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
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Lorn's Lure
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
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.
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the another world
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
The Another World is a fantasy-themed adventure game where you have to defeat the monster king, but before that, you have to find a key to open each door to reach the monster king, and every time you look for the key, there will be monsters in your way! Be careful
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MO:Astray
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
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Airframe Ultra
Single-player alternative to Rain World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rain World.
There's only two types of racers in Megacity West: The winners and the dead. So fire up your airframe and strap on your katana. Welcome to the violent underground world of Ultra Circuit racing!