Single-player games like Headlander
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Headlander, 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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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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BLADECHIMERA
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
Explore a dark and sinister Osaka as the Demon Hunter Shin. Battle demons, regain lost skills, and uncover the truth of your forgotten past in this exciting occult-inspired cyberpunk metroidvania.
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The Swapper
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
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Rochard
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
Fast-paced platforming action and mind-bending puzzles based on gravity
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Gato Roboto
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
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Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. Created to defend a totalitarian state, the Moonrider rejects its programming and now seeks vengeance on its creators.
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Dex
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.
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Teslagrad
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Psychonauts 2
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
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Brutal Legend
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Headlander.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
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Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Costume Quest
Single-player alternative to Headlander — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.