Single-player games like Tails Island
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Tails Island, 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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Croaked!
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tails Island.
Croaked! is a frog-themed roguelike survivor where you choose unique frogs, battle massive hordes of enemies, catch insects for powerful bonuses, evolve weapons, discover special events, and defeat challenging bosses while creating new builds every run.
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A.S.S.
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tails Island.
Spin the slot machine. If luck is on your side, your power explodes. Level up fast, collect items, and build your loadout. Hunt down “Spawners” that endlessly create monsters, survive the bullet hell, and clear stages. Overwhelm enemies with insane growth driven by luck and choice.
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Tiny Bomber
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tails Island.
Survive the countdown in a fast-paced vertical bullet-hell roguelite. Collect coins to extend your run, graze bullets to trigger aircraft-specific boosts, build wild upgrade combos, and push toward the final boss.
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Timber Fever
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tails Island.
Cut down the infinitely tall Tree to grow stronger. Timber Fever is an action, incremental roguelike where you create chaos with wacky tools while surviving enemy waves.
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Tales of Meow: Survivors
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tails Island.
Play as adorable cats and fight against endless waves of enemies in this roguelike game! Empower yourself with ever-growing abilities, create powerful builds, and use a wide variety of active items to handle any situation. It’s time to defeat your enemies!
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Pets Survivors
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tails Island.
Pets Survivors is a survival roguelike where you battle hordes of monsters and fight to stay alive until time runs out. Choose your pet, pick your favorite weapon, upgrade your abilities, and see how long you can survive!
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E-Lich: Corporate Souls
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tails Island.
There’s no R.I.P at E-Lich Corp! Explore the afterlife in this roguelite bullet heaven that is all about humor, insane power-levels, replayability and awful office jokes. Reap souls along your undead coworkers in a company that values your life. And death. Literally.
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Where Giants Fall
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tails Island.
Survive procedural fantasy biomes in a 3D top-down bullet-heaven action roguelite with survivors-like build growth. Upgrade auto-fire weapons, earn and upgrade active abilities, unlock level-10 ultimates, defeat bosses, and push into Endless Mode.
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Super Arter
Single-player alternative to Tails Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tails Island.
Solve the most challenging puzzles, jump, throw objects, use switches, dodge traps, defeat enemies, collect gifts, and discover the best way for Arter to take the key to the door in this puzzle/platform game.