Single-player games like Puppeteer: No Strings Attached
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached, 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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Spirited Line
Single-player alternative to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppeteer: No Strings Attached.
Spirited Line is a boss rush hack ‘n’ slash action game where every hit you take is fatal. Master precise, skill-based combat against unique spirits in a surreal, minimalist subway world. Fast-paced duels demand focus, timing, and patience to survive.
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Illusive Domain
Single-player alternative to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Puppeteer: No Strings Attached.
Deflect, parry, and defeat your opponents through intense boss rush action. Fight for you and your allies’ freedom, lest you remain entombed forever more.
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Dream Doctor
Single-player alternative to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Puppeteer: No Strings Attached.
Dream Doctor is a platformer BOSS RUSH where you take on the role of a "psychologist", capable of entering your patients' dreams to confront their worst nightmares through brute force.
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Perennial Order
Single-player alternative to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppeteer: No Strings Attached.
Perennial Order is a 2D plant horror boss rush with challenging one-hit-death combat. Set in an atmospheric Dark Age world plagued by nature-infested horrors, explore a lore-filled and eldritch land alone or in two player co-op, all in a realistic painterly style.
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Flavio The Ghost Clown
Single-player alternative to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Puppeteer: No Strings Attached.
Battle challenging bosses in this Run & Gun action game. Generate resources in a tycoon-style workshop and upgrade your equipment in the shop to guide Flavio through these bizarre battles!
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Raindancer
Single-player alternative to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Puppeteer: No Strings Attached.
Awoken from death by The Rain itself, Bramble is tasked with bringing an end to the leaders of three rival tribes, and purifying their corruption against nature.
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Path of Fear
Single-player alternative to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Puppeteer: No Strings Attached.
Path of Fear is a stylized papercraft action-adventure. Play a fallen queen who splits into her own Echo — fight side by side, leap across impossible gaps, and face your deepest fears to rescue a lost companion.
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Eldest Souls
Single-player alternative to Puppeteer: No Strings Attached — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Puppeteer: No Strings Attached.
Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.