Single-player games like The Buddy Signal
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Buddy Signal, 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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Solar Voltage
Single-player alternative to The Buddy Signal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.
After a huge solar storm destroyed their ship and left them stranded, help Volt and her crewmates escape the dangerous planet filled with deadly robots and a mysterious AI.
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Tellyport
Single-player alternative to The Buddy Signal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.
Play as Sally, the granddaughter of a brilliant and eccentric inventor, who invited you to explore her 70s lab, filled with unique inventions. Solve puzzles by crossing TV screens that alter your gravity, size, or both. Observation, manipulation, and thinking are key to progressing!
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Soft(A)ware
Single-player alternative to The Buddy Signal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.
A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.
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Star Overdrive
Single-player alternative to The Buddy Signal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.
Star Overdrive is a high-speed action adventure set in an open world. Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard, mastering tricks, battling enemies, solving puzzles, and using your powers to overcome challenges and shape your destiny!
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Chromatic Conundrum
Single-player alternative to The Buddy Signal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.
Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.
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Biped 2
Single-player alternative to The Buddy Signal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.
Biped 2 is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration alone or between 2 or 4 players.
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Wirm
Single-player alternative to The Buddy Signal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.
Take a worm on a tiny adventure through this delightfully wiggly physics platformer :)
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CHAIRS
Single-player alternative to The Buddy Signal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.
A fast-paced action platformer doubling as the most realistic chair simulator money can buy! Have you ever wondered what your chair thinks? What it believes? What it desires? Learn the answers and destroy some dimensions along the way!