Single-player games like The Growth Journey
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Growth Journey, 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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Swiftly
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Swiftly is a very challenging platformer game. It has simple graphics and easy to understand rules, but you are going to have a hard time completing the levels.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Built from scratch, enjoy breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New 'n' Tasty reignites the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee using the latest next-generation technology.
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Orcs Must Die! 2
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
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Outland
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Outland is a fast-paced, dynamic platformer where the player uses powers of light and dark in an epic journey to save the world from forces of chaos.
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Hektor
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Experience terrors only madness can conjure in HEKTOR, a psychological horror game set in a world that literally moves with your every twist and turn.
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Slime-san: Superslime Edition
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
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CASE: Animatronics
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?
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Two Digits
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Simple, minimalist and difficult. Two Digits is a perfect blend between insanity and happiness. You are given 9 numbers less than 100, and all you have to do is to choose two subsets with the same sum.
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Snik
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Snik is an extremely hard game that will test your reflexes, timing, aiming and planning ahead in a simple, minimalist interface.
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Three Digits
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Three Digits is the sequel to our first game Two Digits. You are given 14 numbers less than 1000, and all you have to do is to choose two subsets with the same sum.
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Tenrow
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Tenrow is a logic puzzle game. Includes 50 levels.
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Multimirror
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Multimirror is a minimal grid-based puzzle game.
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Permute
Single-player alternative to The Growth Journey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Rotate and navigate a colorful world.