Single-player games like Timespinner
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Timespinner, 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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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Timespinner.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
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.
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Infernax
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
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Alwa's Awakening
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Timespinner.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
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Astalon: Tears of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Timespinner.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Touhou Luna Nights
Single-player alternative to Timespinner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Timespinner.
Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action. Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.