Single-player games like forma.8
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to forma.8, 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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Secrets of Rætikon
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Ruthless bird versus bird action. Wild animals and the artefacts of a mysterious ancient culture. A game full of challenge and discovery – unlike anything you've played before.
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Dex
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.
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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
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.
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Gato Roboto
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
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Feudal Alloy
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Feudal Alloy is an epic action adventure with fish-controlled medieval robots! Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.
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Teslagrad
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with forma.8.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
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Smelter
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
You are Eve, fresh out of Eden and armed with a living suit of armor, Smelter. Explore a dangerous new world, battle its bizarre denizens and expand your empire in a desperate journey to find Adam.
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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
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Futuridium EP Deluxe
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Futuridium EP Deluxe is a psychedelic retro inspired shoot’em up with a modern twist, that blends together frantic action, puzzle elements, a vibrant low poly aesthetic and an heart pumping electronic soundtrack.
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Waking Violet
Single-player alternative to forma.8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Waking Violet is a classic 2D top-down puzzle game, but with awesome spells and a unique time rewind mechanic. Playing as Violet, a shy teen with a desire to grow up, you get trapped in a dream you just can't wake up from.