Single-player games like Painted Legend
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Painted Legend, 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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UFO 50
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
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Absolum
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
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.
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
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.
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Trine 2: Complete Story
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
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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Wizard of Legend
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
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Infernax
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
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Trine Enchanted Edition
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
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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Heavenly Bodies
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
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Cetetorius
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Legend.
This is a first-person action RPG where you are free to do whatever you want. Turn off the road, start the adventure! The world is open to exploration. Explore the lands of the kingdom, look for unique artifacts, create many objects with a simple crafting system and become part of an amazing world!
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Painted Legend 2
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painted Legend.
Painted Legend 2 is an atmospheric platformer crafted in a unique grid notebook style. It continues the story begun in Painted Legend, as the player once again steps into a hand-drawn world filled with adventure, danger, and mystery.
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The Game of Squids: Ultimate Parody Game
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Painted Legend.
A crazy and colorful runner in a cartoon style, where the player has to go through many rooms with various trials and try to survive. The game contains a huge number of references, parodies and memes to make fun!
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Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper
Single-player alternative to Painted Legend — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Painted Legend.
An action-adventure platformer in the metroidvania subgenre. The graphics are made in the style of a checkered notebook and blue ink. Defeat crowds of monsters, overcome traps, explore the game world, unlock new characters and find secrets! And all this to the accompaniment of driving music!