Single-player games like Paganitzu
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Paganitzu, 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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Hocus Pocus
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Paganitzu.
Terexin, leader of the Council of Wizards, is sending the young sorcerer, Hocus, on a special mission to prove his worthiness.
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Paganitzu.
What's green with red spots, has suction hands, and has an overbite like Bart Simpson? Of course, the answer is Cosmo! Cosmo is a young alien on his way to visit Disney World with his parents. That is, until their ship is struck by a blazing comet, forcing them to land on an uncharted planet.
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Secret Agent HD
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Paganitzu.
Return to the remote island classic world of rewards and traps in the HD remake of Secret Agent! Guide 006 through puzzles & arcade challenges of your favorite missions, then uncover the whole new Episode loaded with all new puzzles, enemies, challenges, hazards & help 006 finally defeat DVS!
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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paganitzu.
Wolfenstein 3D took you into the past, thrusting you into a world at war. Blake rockets you into the future where a sinister madman, using genetics to create an army of bizarre creatures, is waging war on Earth. Blake has more of everything!
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Crystal Caves HD
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paganitzu.
Return to the underground classic world of treasures and traps in the HD remake of Crystal Caves! Guide Mylo through puzzles and arcade challenges of your favorite episodes, then explore the whole new Episode loaded with all new puzzles, enemies, challenges, hazards and help Mylo get back home!
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DUSK '82: ULTIMATE EDITION
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Paganitzu.
DUSK '82 is a simple but addictive action-puzzler demake of the cult shooter DUSK, inspired by classics like Chip's Challenge and Sokoban.
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Stranger Things 3: The Game
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Paganitzu.
Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Paganitzu.
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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Commander Keen
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paganitzu.
Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons: Episode 1: Marooned on Mars (Dec. 14th 1990) Episode 2: The Earth Explodes (1991) Episode 3: Keen Must Die! (1991) Commander Keen's very first adventure, and the debut of id's groundbreaking side-scrolling technology.
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BioMenace Remastered
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paganitzu.
The classic 2D action platformer BioMenace returns with enhanced graphics and refined gameplay. Fight your way through a city ravaged by dangerous mutants, rescue hostages, find secrets and rack up points. Locate the secret lab behind this attack and prevent Dr. Mangle from taking over the world!
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Quest Master
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Paganitzu.
Quest Master is a dungeon maker inspired by the classics that first made us love dungeon crawling. Unleash your imagination, alone or in local co-op, to make dungeons full of puzzles, traps and monsters. Upload them for others to explore and challenge yourself with other players’ creations.
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Major Stryker
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paganitzu.
In the not-so-distant future, the calamity of World War III led to eventual world peace. But, it didn't last. Earth was invaded by alien marauders - the Kretons. Earth's united military force, still depleted after the mighty onslaught of WWIII, was not nearly sufficient to repel the numerous Kreton attacks.
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Realms of Chaos
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Paganitzu.
Realms of Chaos is an exciting side-scrolling platform game with an innovative mix of action, adventure, mysticism, and role-playing that's never been seen in this style of game. Set in the fantastic world of Mysteria, Realms of Chaos is the first of many adventures of Endrick and Elandra, a brother and sister duo who find themselves on...
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Stargunner
Single-player alternative to Paganitzu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paganitzu.
In the far distant future, an epic war for survival takes place... Deep within the Andromeda galaxy, the people of Zile grow restless and greedy. The Zilions secretly prepare for a massive strike against the nearby planet Ytima. Fearing such an attack, the Ytimians train an elite squad of "Stargunners.