Single-player games like Shin Samurai Jazz
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Shin Samurai Jazz, 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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Cyber Shadow
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.
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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.
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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
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Berserk Boy
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
BERSERK BOY is a high speed action packed Platformer, with Metroidvania elements. Packed with vibrant and stylish pixel art. Go Berserk! as you change into different forms and use the power of Lightning, Fire, Ice, Air, and Earth to save the planet!
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Shiro
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Shiro is an adventure platformer in which you have to find your missing sister
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samurai_jazz
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
An action/adventure game taking ques from both film-noir and samurai-drama's of old, "samurai_jazz" takes players on an adventure through an enigmatic city, engaging in sword-fights, encounters with mythological beings, and quirky dialog with the local inhabitants presented with a pseudo 8-bit style.
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An Imp? A Fiend!
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Stuck in the Underworld without the slightest clue why, a young fiend has a bit of a mystery to solve in this action/adventure platformer. With a world to explore, a past to uncover, and quite the task to complete, players must embark on a quest filled with monsters, towns, dungeons, bosses, and various platforming challenges.
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iaidoka_interlude
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
A pseudo 8-bit action platformer taking a bit of inspiration from film-noir and samurai dramas, iaidoka_interlude applies a few parkour and fighting game influences to mix up familiarity with a little uniquity.
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The Way of the Pixelated Fist
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
The Way of the Pixelated Fist is a parkour and martial arts inspired free-roaming cinematic platformer. While it blends together the gameplay concepts of The Prince of Persia and Karateka, they are presented with refined controls and other modern innovations to give the game an intuitive and fluid feel.
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Ninjahtic
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Ninjahtic is an action/adventure platformer with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth. While it's progression is linear, the open-ended nature of every level requires exploration of an abandoned civilization located atop floating islands.
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Ninjahtic Mind Tricks
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Ninjahtic Mind Tricks is an 8-bit hack-and-slash platformer with stealth, adventure, and puzzle elements. Like it's predecessor, Ninjahtic, levels have an open-ended nature and are presented in a linear fashion. Though, several features have been added to the predecessor's formula to create a more varied experience.
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Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin is a pseudo 8-bit action platformer. While it integrates gameplay mechanics of the previous titles in the series, they are combined in a manner which differentiates itself from its predecessors.
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Hikikomori No Chuunibyou
Single-player alternative to Shin Samurai Jazz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shin Samurai Jazz.
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is a pseudo 8-bit platform-adventure game with beat-em-up, puzzle, and stealth elements. With its storytelling directing the player through open-ended levels, progression through each stage requires usage of parkour-like abilities and martial-arts techniques.