Single-player games like The Forbidden Forest
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Forbidden Forest, 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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Phaze Shift
Single-player alternative to The Forbidden Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift! A tag-team, action Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
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Li'l Red II
Single-player alternative to The Forbidden Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Don the red hood and venture into this fabled adventure as Lyra. Metroidvania meets Top-Down Adventure in this challenging, side-scrolling tale.
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Set In Stone
Single-player alternative to The Forbidden Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
A 2D platformer metroidvania. Discover a strange place where everyone was turned into a tiny stone. Fight difficult bosses, explore an interconnected world, and piece together the chaotic history of people who suddenly lost their humanity (or not?).
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Plus Ultra: Legado
Single-player alternative to The Forbidden Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Explore a vast, colorful world in this 2D hand-drawn Metroidvania set during the Age of Discoveries. Grab your halberd and become a hero amid the storm!
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Graviton Reloaded
Single-player alternative to The Forbidden Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Graviton Reloaded is a 2D-Platformer inspired by other metroidvanias and indie games. In-game, you play as an alien, Xeon, who traverses a facility which has succumbed to the sands of time, but somehow Xeon remembers this place when it was clean. ...almost as if the facility aged without her.
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Almos – A Dream Painter's Tale
Single-player alternative to The Forbidden Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Explore a hand-crafted Metroidvania where dreams and nightmares collide. Master fast-paced combat, craft powerful spells, and harness Color to restore a dying world while uncovering the truth behind the Dream Painters.
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Faction Reticent
Single-player alternative to The Forbidden Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
A "whimsical fantasy" action platformer game with an open-ended progression. Utilize the given abilities to you to its fullest potential, and look epic while doing it.
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Runic Curse Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Forbidden Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Runic Curse Remastered is a thrilling action RPG Metroidvania that transports you to a cursed island. Explore dark and diverse locations, battle hordes of enemies and mighty bosses. Forge your own playstyle by combining various weapons with magical runes to overcome all challenges.