Single-player games like Yooka-Laylee
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Yooka-Laylee, 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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A Hat in Time
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
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Fill The Void
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Suck up the world. Consume & collect everything. Grow in size and power.
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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The Adventure Pals
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
The Adventure Pals is an epic adventure platformer fueled by imagination, friendship, and the dark side of hot dogs. Your dad has been dadnapped and you, your pet rock, and a tongue-helicoptering giraffe must fight your way through levels filled with platforming, bizarre enemies, and big bosses to save the world!
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Mischief
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Mischief is a delightful and imaginative action/adventure video game where you step into the paws of a courageous rat, navigating through a captivating world within the nooks and crannies of a typical home and a bustling backyard solo or with up to four local players!
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Castle on the Coast
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
A hand-drawn, retro 3D collectathon. Parkour through a magic castle as George the Giraffe! String together sweet moves to explore crystal caverns, stone laden halls, and trippy alternate dimensions.
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Sonic Mania
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Sonic Mania is an all-new adventure with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles full of unique bosses, rolling 2D landscapes, and fun classic gameplay.
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Unbox: Newbie's Adventure
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure is a 90s style 3D platformer about the ultimate postal service, self-delivering cardboard boxes! Unbox: Newbie's Adventure has giant worlds full of challenges, collectibles and boxy boss battles!
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Blast your way through an interdimensional adventure with Ratchet and Clank – now on PC! Help them take on an evil emperor from another reality as you jump between action-packed worlds and beyond at hyper-speed!
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Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
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Yooka-Replaylee
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the collectibles to uncover. Can you help them rescue the world’s biggest treasure?
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Clive 'N' Wrench
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Hop, spin, and time-travel your way through 11 vibrant worlds in this lovingly crafted 3D platformer. Join Clive the rabbit and Wrench the monkey on his back as they chase an evil genius across history to save the future. And yes, it all unfolds from the chilly cockpit of a 1950s refrigerator.
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Hell Pie
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Hell Pie is an obscene 3D platformer that takes bad taste to the next level! Hell Pie sees you grab the horns of Nate, the ‘Demon of Bad Taste’. He is given the honorable task of gathering the disgusting ingredients for Satan’s infamous birthday pie!
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Duck Hunting
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Welcome to the realistic world of duck hunting. Shoot ducks , gaining experience!
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Master Blaster
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yooka-Laylee.
Grab your controller, charge your blasters and prepare for the physics shooter of the Universe! Take on diverse gameplay challenges, manage and upgrade your resources and abilities while you unfold the mysteries of the Cosmos. Defeat LORD CHAOSBRINGER and earn your title as the MASTER BLASTER!
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Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a brand-new 2.5D platformer from some of the key creative talent behind 'Donkey Kong Country'. As the colourful buddy duo you must tackle a series of stunning, 2.5D levels and explore a puzzling 3D Overworld rich with secrets and surprises!
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Super Yooka-Laylee Kart
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yooka-Laylee.
The most skilful, expressive and explosive racer built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks. Race through a solo campaign, compete against rivals online, or create your own custom race setups and challenge your friends.