Single-player games like BASED
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to BASED, 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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Forgotten Fragments
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Test your skills in this puzzle-platformer game: Help Enid, Ryder, and Dayen recover the Forgotten Fragments in this beautiful pixel art adventure. More than a hundred of hand-crafted levels split between the single-player and co-op campaigns!
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Grot
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Leap in and out of your mine cart hat to survive deadly, ever-changing caves in this precision platformer. Steal powerful gems and push deeper into a mysterious loop.
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Critter Highlanders
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BASED.
Play with up to 4 "friends" in this fast paced online co-op (friend-slop) platformer. Create devilish levels to annoy and stump your friends or download levels from the steam workshop to keep the game spicy after completing the built in levels.
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Marshmallow Marvin: Timberfall
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Marshmallow Marvin: Timberfall is a 2D pixel art platformer where Marvin explores the moonlit Timberfall Woods, dodging bears, owls, traps, and wild dangers while mastering precision platforming to survive the night and uncover hidden forest secrets.
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Marshmallow Marvin: Grimvault
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Marshmallow Marvin: Grimvault is a challenging 2D pixel art platformer where you guide Marvin through cursed vaults and haunted tombs, avoiding deadly traps, dodging automated turrets, collecting coins, and mastering precision platforming to uncover ancient secrets and survive the Grimvault.
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The Pale Piper
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Uncover the truth behind your death and your sibling’s in a story-driven precision platformer inspired by the Pied Piper myth. Navigate a decaying, interconnected world where movement is your only defense. No combat, only precision, consequence, and secrets hidden in the dark.
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Deep Sea Sweep
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Switch between free movement and platforming while carrying heavy treasures to navigate each level. Swim, jump and bonk meanies on their head in many short but challenging levels with tight controls. Clean up the sea of all these filthy treasures chests plaguing the various biomes!
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Moventure
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with BASED.
100 moves, 2 buttons, 0 tutorials. Master a massive moveset hidden within a D-Pad and 2 buttons. Conquer +100 levels in the ultimate movelike precision platformer.
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One Step From Eden
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
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Duelists of Eden
Single-player alternative to BASED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Build a deck and battle online in real-time action with rollback netcode!