Single-player games like Color Guardians
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Color Guardians, 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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Poosh XL
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Poosh XL is a neon-infused, one-button arcade score chaser where precision and timing are everything. Launch yourself past obstacles, collect powerups, and climb the leaderboards in this fast-paced, endlessly challenging game. Simple to learn, hard to master, perfect for quick, addictive gameplay!
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Ultimo Soccer UDC
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Dribble past all the obstacles in this skill-based soccer game.
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Escape From Russia: Mobilization
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Originally russian runner, in which you have to find yourself in the shoes of a poor piglet, running away from the military commissar with a agenda.
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RunBean Galactic
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Run, jump and roll on your way to the new high score! Sounds easy, right? Not when you try to keep up with the hazards and bonuses that are constantly appearing all around the planet!
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SCRAM!
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
SCRAM! is a platformer based on speed. Play as Boki, a mischievous goblin with a need for speed. Slash, dash, and dive your way through enemies as you loot the Petrifying Forest, Ruined Bastion, and various other worlds. Fight off massive bosses in fast paced gameplay.
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Speed Mazing
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Exciting racing party game for up to 4 players. Quick game sessions, hundreds of maps and eye-catching visuals. There's also a challenging speedrun mode for single player.
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AlCHeMoS
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Explore weird and wonderful experimental worlds in a stranger-than-fiction molecular setting. AlCHeMoS is an atomic Action/Exploration game about alchemy. Seek subatomic particles, discover elements, challenge your friends, and overcome the forces of Dark Matter as they evolve to defeat you!
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Dino-Ducks Dash
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Dino-Ducks Dash is a 2D Hi-Score Multiplayer Runner you can play PvP, Co-Op or as a single player to beat the leaderboard.It has a couch co-op mode and an online co-op mode.And you can also beat the stuffing out of the other cute Dino Ducks with a machete!
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Color Guardians.
Brawl it out with your Nickelodeon favorites in epic platform battles.
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Color Guardians.
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 lets you duke it out with the biggest and best fighting character roster yet! Choose your favorite brawlers, master their unique move sets, and use all-new powerful Supers to land the finishing blow with friends or across a unique, roguelike player campaign!
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Firefighters - Airport Heroes
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Firefighters - Airport Heroes, players become everyday heroes in the very place where we feel most vulnerable: the world's airports.
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G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Color Guardians.
G.I. Joe and Cobra are back! G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is a classic team-based third-person shooter where you play as your favorite characters from Team G.I. Joe and Team Cobra.
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Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bring iconic Nickelodeon heroes into a world of fantasy and real-time RPG action. Throw the dice and dive into a wild, action-packed adventure with SpongeBob, Katara, Leonardo, and others. Featuring epic battles, dynamic environments, it's an engaging gameplay experience for players of all ages.