Single-player games like Nine Parchments
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Nine Parchments, 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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Smells Like Burnt Rubber
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Get ready for a fast-paced, adrenaline-fueled racing experience with Smells Like Burnt Rubber. Choose your car, customize it, and hit the track in this intense arcade-style game. Play with up to 4 friends in Splitscreen or join the Online Multiplayer. Are you ready to burn some rubber?
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Otherlights
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Otherlights is an action-RPG game with roguelike tendencies designed for 1 to 4 players. In this sunless world, unlock many heroes and develop their destinies to try to access the solar fragment guarded by the powerful Exharques.
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Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Haamupeli: Wrath of the Iku-Turso is a fantasy-themed action RPG adventure game about vanquishing an ancient threat. Recruit allies, find powerful items, develop your character and interact with the game world and its inhabitants to archieve your goals.
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Superior Wizards
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Explore the world, learn new spells, bend spells around corners and get spell upgrades in the adventure of a young wizard roaming the world. Become a wizard for hire and begin your journey.
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Shwip
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Dominate global leaderboards as you face an unrelenting geometric force. Shwip blends twin-stick arcade action with tight controls, jaw-dropping pixel destruction, and devastating weapons and abilities. Evade, outlast, and play with style in four game modes, both solo and local multiplayer.
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HELLFRONT: HONEYMOON
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
HELLFRONT is an intense top-down shooter. Conquer ground, build a base, and command your troops in battle! Play PvP or beat the campaign co-op or solo.
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Eon Altar
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
A role-playing game like no other. Your smartphone is your character! Eon Altar brings modern technology to the social experience of couch co-op gaming. Voice your character, choose which secrets to keep and what lies to tell. Gather your friends, order a pizza and descend to the depths of Eon Altar!
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Undercrewed
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Grab your friends and build and fly your own customisable spaceship. With local and online co-op customise your spacecraft with a wide variety of components, you must work together to figure out the best way to survive your journey!
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Magicka
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.
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NeuroVoider
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
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Trine 2: Complete Story
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
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Crawl
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!
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Moon Hunters
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Nine Parchments.
Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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Trine Enchanted Edition
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
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Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
The best-selling Trine series returns to the magic of 2.5D! Join three iconic heroes as they set off on a quest through fantastical fairytale landscapes to save the world from the Nightmare Prince’s shadows.
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Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is a platforming game of action, puzzles and adventure, and the sequel to the award winning Trine and Trine 2. Reunite with the three heroes in an all-new adventure, now for the first time in full 3D!
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Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Nine Parchments.
The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!
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Shadowgrounds
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...
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Shadwen
Single-player alternative to Nine Parchments — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nine Parchments.
Shadwen is a 3rd person stealth-action game where the only rule is to remain unseen. Stay hidden - or the ruthless guards will kill you on sight!