Single-player games like Xeodrifter
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Xeodrifter, 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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Juno's Darkest Hour
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Juno’s Darkest Hour is a simple but challenging 2D action adventure platformer game inspired by the side-scrollers of the past. Explore the secrets of a vast monochromatic world. Will you succeed against all odds, or will you die over and over again?
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Mutant Mudds Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!
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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Gato Roboto
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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Dementium: The Ward
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
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Mutant Mudds Super Challenge
Single-player alternative to Xeodrifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.
Here comes a challenge! Mutant Mudds Super Challenge!! Over 40 levels filled with malicious mutant mudds. This adventure is designed for super players; featuring a host of new platforming challenges and unique boss fights that will test your skills.