Single-player games like Spud's Quest
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Spud's Quest, 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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Bookbound Brigade
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
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Owlboy
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
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Hob
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
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La-Mulana
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
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Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
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Horace
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
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Metroidvania Maker
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
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The Escapists 2
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spud's Quest.
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to Spud's Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Spud's Quest.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!