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Single-player games like Just Bones

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Just Bones, 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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    Mini Ghost — Steam game cover

    Mini Ghost

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    "Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Taimumari: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Taimumari: Definitive Edition

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cuphead — Steam game cover

    Cuphead

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.

    2017ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broforce — Steam game cover

    Broforce

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super Meat Boy — Steam game cover

    Super Meat Boy

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

    2010Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove — Steam game cover

    Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Duck Game — Steam game cover

    Duck Game

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

    2015ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Messenger — Steam game cover

    The Messenger

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.

    2018ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RIP - Trilogy™ — Steam game cover

    RIP - Trilogy™

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    With the completion of the third title in the RIP series, the RIP games have become an instant classic in the arcade-shooter genre. RIP — Trilogy brings all three RIP titles into one exciting and heart-pounding pack.RIPNot afraid of Death? What if he is accompanied by Halloween and Rock-N-Roll?

    2007IndieCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RIP - Trilogy™ — Steam game cover

    RIP - Trilogy™

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    With the completion of the third title in the RIP series, the RIP games have become an instant classic in the arcade-shooter genre. RIP — Trilogy brings all three RIP titles into one exciting and heart-pounding pack.RIPNot afraid of Death? What if he is accompanied by Halloween and Rock-N-Roll?

    2007IndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RIP - Trilogy™ — Steam game cover

    RIP - Trilogy™

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Bones.

    With the completion of the third title in the RIP series, the RIP games have become an instant classic in the arcade-shooter genre. RIP — Trilogy brings all three RIP titles into one exciting and heart-pounding pack.RIPNot afraid of Death? What if he is accompanied by Halloween and Rock-N-Roll?

    2007IndieCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Surface: The Pantheon Collector's Edition — Steam game cover

    Surface: The Pantheon Collector's Edition

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    How did the Capital Express vanish?

    2016AdventureCasual19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grim Tales: The Bride Collector's Edition — Steam game cover

    Grim Tales: The Bride Collector's Edition

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    After your sister vanishes on her wedding day no one has any idea what happened to her, so it’s up to you to find the truth!

    2016AdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mystery Trackers: The Void Collector's Edition — Steam game cover

    Mystery Trackers: The Void Collector's Edition

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Explore the Void family mansion!

    2016AdventureCasual19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Riddles of Fate: Wild Hunt Collector's Edition — Steam game cover

    Riddles of Fate: Wild Hunt Collector's Edition

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Can you defeat the Four Horsemen and save the city?

    2016AdventureCasual19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Royal Detective: The Lord of Statues Collector's Edition — Steam game cover

    Royal Detective: The Lord of Statues Collector's Edition

    Single-player alternative to Just Bones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Save the besieged alpine village of Martlet and rescue its residents from the mysterious living statues in this exciting Hidden Object Adventure game!

    2016AdventureCasual19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →