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Single-player games like Max's Adventures: Summer Edition

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition, 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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    Grimm & Tonic: Aperitif — Steam game cover

    Grimm & Tonic: Aperitif

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    Maintaining a healthy Work-Life balance is pretty tricky on a good day but it’s damn near impossible when your boss threatens foreclosure on your mortal existence. As the new bartender at DEAD-END, you’ll make new friends, mix weird drinks, all while navigating Life, Death and everything in between.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Epic Tavern — Steam game cover

    Epic Tavern

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    Award Winner: PAX 10 2019 | Winner, Momocon 2018 Indie Games Awards | "A fascinating reverse-RPG" - PC Gamer | "A cross between The Sims and a rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons" - Geek & Sundry

    2017StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stories: The Path of Destinies — Steam game cover

    Stories: The Path of Destinies

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Reigns — Steam game cover

    Reigns

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Run TavernQuest — Steam game cover

    Run TavernQuest

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?

    2026IndieAdventureRPG12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    生嚿叉燒好過生你 — Steam game cover

    生嚿叉燒好過生你

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    你將會扮演一塊壞了的叉燒,在陰間展開一場無厘頭超低能勁搞笑大癲全配音地獄式非工業用無添加眼碌碌反高潮多重結局高清無碼免運費無炭用䟴䟴腳經濟實惠非主流已讀不回壞腸胃超級無敵超過一百個Steam成就鬼咁多玩法的大冒險! 這塊叉燒最後能投個好胎嗎?還是只能投個怪胎呢?全看你了~

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind — Steam game cover

    Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.

    2019StrategySimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pendragon: Narrative Tactics — Steam game cover

    Pendragon: Narrative Tactics

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    AD 673. Camelot has fallen. The Round Table must rally to save King Arthur. Narrative strategy game from the creators of 80 DAYS, with elegant tactics and a unique, dynamic story every time you replay.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Keycards — Steam game cover

    Keycards

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    Trapped in darkness, hunted down—your only way out is the right keycard. In this intense co-op multiplayer horror game, you and up to 4 friends must search terrifying maps, evade deadly villains, and escape before time runs out. No weapons, just wits. Can you survive?

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Mage: Trials of Vahrkesh — Steam game cover

    The Last Mage: Trials of Vahrkesh

    Single-player alternative to Max's Adventures: Summer Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Max's Adventures: Summer Edition.

    The Last Mage: Trials of Vahrkesh is a story-rich action RPG where Aelena, pulled from the modern world into a medieval realm, gains forbidden magic and joins a rebellion. Battle, solve puzzles, and face epic trials to stop a tyrant in a world of danger, mystery, and magic.

    2025ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →