Single-player games like Color Guardians
Below are 14 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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Runner3
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
CommanderVideo returns in Runner3's heart-pounding saga! Conquer villainous villains, drive wild vehicles, and navigate thrilling environments. Meet quirky characters and face retro challenges for an adrenaline-soaked rhythm-music platformer adventure!
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The Last Tinker™: City of Colors
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
The Last Tinker is a joyous action adventure and definitely no platformer, as there is no jump button. Koru, a boy from the slums of Colortown, must rise and stand against the Bleakness, a dark force intent on wiping out joy. Koru must use color and emotion to restore life to Colortown!
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GIGANTIC ARMY
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Side-scrolling mech-shooting bad-assery is BACK!GIGANTIC ARMY is a heartfelt homage to 16-bit era mech shooters such as Cybernator / Assault Suits Valken, Metal Warriors, and Front Mission: Gun Hazard, developed by the studio behind the acclaimed shooter SATAZIUS.
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Yooka-Laylee
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
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Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Battle Chef Brigade pairs combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking in a hand drawn, fantasy adventure. Cook your way into the Brigade while subduing Victusia’s destructive monsters. Follow Mina and Thrash in the single-player campaign or challenge your friends in Local Multiplayer and Daily Cook-Offs.
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Action Henk
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Run, jump and butt-slide into the glorious toy-filled world of Action Henk! Become a master of momentum and defy physics as you race against a band of ragged 90s action figures to once and for all prove that Action Henk is the fastest of them all!
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FOTONICA
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
Ever wondered what running at 140mph feels like? FOTONICA is a first-person game about the thrill of speed and traveling flawlessly through complex environments.FOTONICA is simple, but is not easy: it follows a tradition of arcade games that are easy to pick up and almost impossible to master.
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I Hate Running Backwards
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
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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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SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed
Single-player alternative to Color Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Color Guardians.
SpeedRunners 2 is a high-speed multiplayer platformer where rival superheroes face off in breakneck races using parkour, grappling hooks, and game-changing power-ups. Fall behind, and a shrinking ring of fire eliminates you – until only one runner remains.
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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.