Single-player games like MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut, 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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Miles & Kilo
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
Race across a curious island in this fast-paced, light-hearted platformer
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Tobe's Vertical Adventure
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
Two unique characters and a total of 4 islands and 16 levels to explore, Tobe's Vertical Adventure shall bring you back to the 16-bit era.
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Blazing Chrome
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
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Terrian Saga: KR-17
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
KR-17 is a 32-bit, story-driven, side-scrolling action puzzle-platformer which follows the story of a military robot on a mission to subdue a rogue agent operating out of an installation on the planet Valiant. It will be the first in a multi-genre series of games centered around the story of Terrius, KR-17's home.
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Jet Gunner
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
Jet Gunner is a 2D platform action indie game that's full of Nestalgia. Full of action, gunfights, bosses and explosions so if you're into the whole 8-Bit vibe you should love this. From the sound, to the graphics to the flicker, this should pay tribute to those classic hard as nails, run 'n' gun games.
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Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
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Curse of the Crescent Isle DX
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
A curse has befallen the Crescent Isle and it's up to you to save it. Luckily the curse has transformed your people into helpful monsters such as drills, blobs, icicles, and gravity flipping...things. With your monster subjects in hand you'll have to drill through rocks, maneuver through spiky terrain, freeze water to pass over the sea,...
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Mega Man Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
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Furry from Outer Space
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
✨Come on an interstellar trip with Furry from Outer Space — into space, love and steamy sex! ✨ Choose your character’s gender, explore faraway worlds and different story branches while enjoying fully voiced animations! ✨
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Aces & Adventures
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
Aces & Adventures is a deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat. Craft your deck, combining poker hands with powerful ability cards. Journey through 13 fully-voiced campaigns to save the Life Tree, or tackle procedurally-generated runs in this strategic deckbuilder unlike any other.
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Castle of Vania
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
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Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.
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Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
Control "The Nerd" in a retro-inspired action platformer! It's two games in one, remixed and rebalanced to bring you the ultimate experience of Nerd Rage. Featuring stylized pixel art inspired by classic games, a highly energetic soundtrack, and challenging levels -- plus a special NEW chapter!
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Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!
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Spectacular Sparky
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
A throwback to the golden age of white-gloved 16-bit video-game mascots, Spectacular Sparky is an action-packed platformer with wacky characters, explosive weapons and boss battles to treasure!
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The Rocky Horror Show Video Game
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
A strange journey
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Knight Terrors
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
A blood-curdling, demon-slashing dash of death! Knight Terrors goes straight for the jugular: it’s a lurid mash-up of side-scrolling gameplay styles in endless procedurally generated levels. Once you’re hooked, the game keeps pulling you back in to increase your high score and unlock more features!
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Terror in the Corn
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
The witch’s ominous chanting echoes through the corn field, a rogues' gallery of deranged monsters is out for your blood, an eerie mist rolls in from worlds unknown... and you don’t even remember how you got here. Can you escape the Terror in the Corn?
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Spaces Between
Single-player alternative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut.
A place built from things you almost remember... Inspired by the original unsettling feeling of the Backrooms, Spaces Between is a psychological liminal horror game about loneliness, memory, and losing yourself in impossible places.