Single-player games like Cosmic Crowbar
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cosmic Crowbar, 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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Dynamite Flare
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Crowbar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Crowbar.
“Join Flare, the grooviest bounty hunter, as she battles notorious criminals for fame and fortune in this stylish 2D beat 'em up. Enter a colorful, hand-drawn world, and unleash fiery kicks, hair attacks, and chaotic combos—each showdown moving her closer to the ultimate funky hideaway!”
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Ittzy Fearless
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Crowbar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cosmic Crowbar.
Ittzy Fearless is a difficult physics-based action game. Play as Ittzy the fire spirit and use your swift moves and devastating strikes to tackle chaotic waves of enemies, projectiles and explosions.
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Underling Uprising
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Crowbar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Crowbar.
Relive the glory of '90s cartoons in this vibrant Beat 'Em Up! Unleash the powers of the Underlings, scientifically enhanced experiments, in exciting 1-4 coop battles. Fight across the globe, master your abilities and take revenge on the mad scientist who created you!
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Battletoads
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Crowbar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cosmic Crowbar.
• Over-the-top combat with combos and hard-hitting morph attacks • Wild, varied gameplay sequences for all types of gamers • Hand-drawn animation feels like playing a cartoon • Drop-in couch co-op for three players
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Crowbar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Crowbar.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.
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Vengeance Hunters
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Crowbar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Crowbar.
Vengeance Hunters is an adrenaline fueled Neo-Geo hardware developed beat’em’up that lets you and a friend in local co-op fight mutants, zombies, punks, gangsters, lab techs with bombs (you read that correctly), suited mystery men, cyborgs and more across multiple stages, sublevels and secret areas.
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G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Crowbar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Crowbar.
Yo Joe! Cobra returns once again with its most fiendish plot yet and it's up to G.I. Joe to defeat them once more! Pick one of the real American heroes, gear up, and get straight into the fight in this retro side-scrolling beat 'em up - and make Cobra RETREAT yet again!
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Absolum
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Crowbar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Crowbar.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.