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Single-player games like Time to Crate

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Time to Crate, 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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    Two Parsecs From Earth — Steam game cover

    Two Parsecs From Earth

    Single-player alternative to Time to Crate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Time to Crate.

    Customize a robot with powerful abilities in this Metroidvania-style platformer.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dream Knights — Steam game cover

    Dream Knights

    Single-player alternative to Time to Crate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Time to Crate.

    Dive into colourful and surreal dreamscapes in a traditional 2D side-scrolling platformer. Master different skills to help you traverse and battle your way through a horde of strange enemies.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ITORAH — Steam game cover

    ITORAH

    Single-player alternative to Time to Crate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Time to Crate.

    Discover the world of Nahucan in this 2D action platformer. You are Itorah, the only human in this strange place. Explore, fight and survive to uncover your past and save Nahucan from its biggest threat, a mysterious plague!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Skul: The Hero Slayer — Steam game cover

    Skul: The Hero Slayer

    Single-player alternative to Time to Crate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Time to Crate.

    Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

    2021ActionIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue Legacy — Steam game cover

    Rogue Legacy

    Single-player alternative to Time to Crate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Time to Crate.

    Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Abyss Odyssey — Steam game cover

    Abyss Odyssey

    Single-player alternative to Time to Crate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Time to Crate.

    From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…

    2014ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue Legacy 2 — Steam game cover

    Rogue Legacy 2

    Single-player alternative to Time to Crate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Time to Crate.

    Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Iconoclasts — Steam game cover

    Iconoclasts

    Single-player alternative to Time to Crate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Time to Crate.

    Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →