Single-player games like White Knuckle
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to White Knuckle, 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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Unification
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Early Access with White Knuckle.
Unification is about a cat chasing its own laser pointer into an ancient black hole engine. Unleash your cat instincts as Gumbot, tackling physics and critters alike! Leap and scramble up ledges, zoom with rocket parkour, shift gravity at will, and wield curious artifacts and dreamlike powers.
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2 FAST 4 YOU
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Race through challenging levels and annihilate killer bots. Master your movement to create your own fastest paths to the finish line. Use unique abilities to speedrun your way to the top of the leaderboards. Catch and banish the evil folder - your cat’s life depends on it!
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+ SHORTCIRCUIT -
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Exploit a 90's Installation Wizard and speedrun through an old PC's dusty, decrepit OS. Find creative paths and exploits around Antiviruses, and bring down the Firewall.
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Bulletkour
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bulletkour is an action-parkour game about using a gun to shoot your way through various obstacles as you try to escape an abyss with virtually nothing except skill.
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Hell Runner
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Early Access with White Knuckle.
Fast Paced first person / third person platformer game where you try to beat each level as fast as possible. Unlock new skills on new chapters and try to find better scores on old levels with new skills as well.
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CatboyZOOM
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Early Access with White Knuckle.
Zoom through the many handcrafted worlds in this FPS Platforming Speedrunner! Master your control over the Source-inspired movement system and leave your best times for others to challenge!
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RocketJump
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
RocketJump Cascade is a speedrunning platformer where you use your trusty rocket launcher to blast your way through mysterious rifts
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Kick'n Hell
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Kick, climb, fall, rage… Rise to the top and take on Satan, or fall like the rest. Beware, there’s no mercy in Hell.
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Peaks of Yore
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Travel around The Great Gales to climb challenging peaks in this physics-based climbing adventure set in 1887. Meet like-minded mountaineers, unlock helpful climbing gear, and become a pioneer of mountaineering.
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Rain World
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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SCP – Containment Breach
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
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SCP
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.
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Lost Valley of the Frog King
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are the captain of an arctic expedition. Months into the voyage, you discover an uncharted island, encased in a wall of ice. You decide to take a closer look and meet with your boat on the far side of the island. What will you discover?
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Portal
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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PEAK
Single-player alternative to White Knuckle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?