Single-player games like Pankapu
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Pankapu, 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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Guacamelee! 2
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pankapu.
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
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Hue
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pankapu.
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
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Crypt Custodian
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pankapu.
Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pankapu.
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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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pankapu.
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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Alwa's Awakening
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pankapu.
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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Blasphemous 2
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pankapu.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
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The Mummy Demastered
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pankapu.
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
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Rayman Raving Rabbids™
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pankapu.
Hordes of crazed out-of control bunnies have invaded, enslaving Rayman and forcing him to participate in 'gladiator' style trials. Help Rayman win his freedom back by entertaining and outwitting these fury foes. Use the most hilarious fighting moves imaginable.
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Ori and the Blind Forest
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pankapu.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
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Aeterna Noctis
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pankapu.
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
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Metroidvania
Single-player alternative to Pankapu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pankapu.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.