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Single-player games like Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon, 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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    Tobari 2: Dream Ocean — Steam game cover

    Tobari 2: Dream Ocean

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Tobari is back in the latest action platformer from indie developer, desunoya. Use that staff and smack around your enemies for their magic as you traverse the Dream Ocean. Seek out the mysterious voice that calls to you from beyond the sea as you journey with Tobari into this unknown new world.

    2020ActionIndieCasual12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wings of Vi — Steam game cover

    Wings of Vi

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Wings of Vi is a challenging 2D platformer in which the player controls the angel Vi, tasked with defeating the Demon Lord Jeh’oul after he is freed from captivity. While inspired by masochistic retro platformers, Wings of Vi aims to cut out arbitrary difficulty in favor of skill based gameplay.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Taimumari: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Taimumari: Definitive Edition

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Freedom Planet — Steam game cover

    Freedom Planet

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.

    2014ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight — Steam game cover

    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rosenkreuzstilette — Steam game cover

    Rosenkreuzstilette

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Rosenkreuzstilette is a mega-action-platformer game in which you step into the shoes of Spiritia Rosenberg, a virtuous young woman caught on the wrong side of a revolution instigated by her closest friends.

    2017ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Celeste — Steam game cover

    Celeste

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Xenon Valkyrie — Steam game cover

    Xenon Valkyrie

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Xenon Valkyrie is a rogue-like with many RPG elements in which you will have to get to the deepest part of a moon and finish the plans of a wicked witch. You will be able to get many weapons randomly as you fight in a world that is created every time you play.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Reverse x Reverse — Steam game cover

    Reverse x Reverse

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Reverse x Reverse is the latest game from Desunoya, creator of Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon. This game is a cute & quirky challenging puzzle platformer, where you control two girls, Code and Rithm, as they traverse a virtual world and complete 81 brain-bending levels.

    2015ActionIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Trapper Knight, Sharpshooter Princess — Steam game cover

    Trapper Knight, Sharpshooter Princess

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    This is Granfesta Kingdom. A land near the sea, with rich foreign trade. On account of its location and magnanimous, festival-loving King, it's a peaceful place where many races coexist. Our story begins with the capital of Granfesta... ...off in the background, in the rural town of Country Ceremo.

    2017StrategyRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tobari 2: Nightmare — Steam game cover

    Tobari 2: Nightmare

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Just when you thought it was safe to spend a day at the beach, desunoya is back with Tobari 2: Nightmare! This is a game that CANNOT be recommended to any normal gamer. But if you are looking for a challenge then this nightmare is waiting for you...!

    2021ActionIndieCasual6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lys and Ruka's Magical Bag — Steam game cover

    Lys and Ruka's Magical Bag

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    Something strange is afoot as a mysterious dungeon appears outside the town of Litos. Gather weapons and items to fight the enemies before and get out of sticky situations in this fast-paced action RPG from desunoya!

    2022ActionIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    LOOP LOOP ROOM — Steam game cover

    LOOP LOOP ROOM

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    This is a simple puzzle platformer game filled with a variety of gimmicks. There is no story! Do your best and gobble up the stars in each stage♪

    2023ActionIndie5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SUPER ALICE DOLLS — Steam game cover

    SUPER ALICE DOLLS

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    『SUPER ALICE DOLLS!』 is a 2D platform action game , Touhou Project fan game, crafted with the adorable essence of Alice is Cute! Alice will use the abilities of various dolls to conquer the level.

    2024ActionIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    魔棒少女みらくるくるん -Magical stick girl Miracle Kurun- — Steam game cover

    魔棒少女みらくるくるん -Magical stick girl Miracle Kurun-

    Single-player alternative to Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tobari and the Night of the Curious Moon.

    That magical girl has abandoned her costume and become a stick!!! This is an STG where the spinning stick is your ship. It can turn and attack in all directions! The strongest!  But because it's a stick, you have to work hard to avoid bullets and walls! Defective!

    2024ActionIndie7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →