Single-player games like The Next Penelope
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Next Penelope, 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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Assault Android Cactus+
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
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Distance
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
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BallisticNG
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
BallisticNG is a high speed, all thrills anti-gravity combat racer and open modding environment developed as a tribute to old school classics such as Wipeout, Rollcage and Jet Moto.
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Antigraviator
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Antigraviator is a sleek new take on the anti-gravity racing genre. Use traps, power-ups and boosts to overtake your opponents and dominate the track in single player or multiplayer mode. With no speed limit holding you back, Antigraviator delivers the fastest racing experience of the future.
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Super Impossible Road
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Winning is Cheating in this futuristic racer set on rollercoaster-like tracks. Create shortcuts to cheat your way to the front. Beat a series of varied solo missions of increasing difficulty and then take your skills online in the cross-platform multiplayer, or battle your roomies in split-screen.
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F1 RACE STARS™
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with The Next Penelope.
F1 RACE STARS™ is a brand new world of FORMULA ONE™ fun as you’ve never seen it before!
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BlazeRush
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
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Micro Machines World Series
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with The Next Penelope.
The legend is back! Micro Machines World Series combines the thrilling madness of racing micro vehicles with epic team battle strategies, set against the extraordinary interactive backdrops of the everyday home! Grab your NERF blaster, try to avoid the jam, and take on the world!
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Zero-G
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Zero-G is a futuristic sports game in zero gravity inspired by Speed Ball and Enders Game. Set out on a 1-3 player cooperative campaign to become the champions of the solar system, or engage in 2-6 player competitive matches.
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Microbes and Machines
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Next Penelope.
Microbes and Machines is a roguelite action game where you control a little bubble robot that fights against the forces of evil.
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RoadKill
Single-player alternative to The Next Penelope — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Next Penelope.
You dodged death once — but it's not finished with you yet. Alone in an eerie town, you must search, hide, and survive while a relentless mechanical predator stalks the streets. Stay alert. Stay alive.