Single-player games like Pinkman
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Pinkman, 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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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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Run or Die
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
Run or Die is a fast paced Endless Runner that focuses on movement based abilities (and a huge Ion Cannon)! Players must make decisions in the blink of an eye in order to make their way through a hazardous city environment where every run is different!
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Camera Obscura
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
An ancient tower in a forgotten land. A lone photographer on a desperate search. Facing dangerous animals, crumbling architecture, and perilous pitfalls, can you reach the summit of the Tower, and perhaps, redemption?
- 4

Apotheon
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
Apotheon is a heroic action game set within the vibrant world of Ancient Greek Mythology. Ascend Mount Olympus, wrestle the divine powers from the Pantheon of Gods, and save mankind.
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BOOR
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pinkman.
BOOR is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you play as a girl with the ability to multiply herself, stranded on Eden, a beautiful but strange world, full of challenging puzzles with platforming elements and a refreshing gameplay.
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Master Spy
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
Throw on your invisibility cloak and put your reflexes to the test in this brutal precision platformer brimming with espionage, intrigue, and betrayal! Featuring an Original Soundtrack by Grammy Award Winner RAC.
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HoPiKo
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
HoPiKo is an intense speed run platformer where you get to save gaming. Jump from platform to platform avoiding death, exploiting shortcuts and ripping through 100s of hand-crafted levels, each one dropped into a 5-stage mini run designed to break your mind!
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Blitz Breaker
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
A simple, fast paced platformer with one small change: Your character can't run. Play as an adorable robot named Blitz and help it escape the factory it was built in. The only problem is, it seems like everything is trying to break you!
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pinkman.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
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Duck Souls
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
Duck Souls is a fast-paced, action platformer about a little duck with an incredible skill to dash and a mission: find all the lost eggs in order to save his species.
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Rabisco
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
Help Ms. Rabisco to find the moon’s lost stars and bring back the light, in this cute but dangerous world, inspired by the World’s Hardest Game.
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Gardener's Path
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Pinkman.
Gardener’s Path is a top-down turn-based puzzle game, about fighting giant insects and protecting underground gardens, through the use of magical artifacts.
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Steel Defier
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pinkman.
Are you ready to escape from your tight prison cell? A malfunction in the defense system of a transport spaceship accidentally killed everyone aboard, except for one last survivor… You and your suspiciously orange suit.
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COLD HUSK
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pinkman.
A research station spans the Moon's surface, humanity's last monument to forbidden DNA experimentation. Read the final thoughts of deceased crew members, uncover a species-ending catastrophe, and navigate cold metallic corridors using only terminal commands. In COLD HUSK, knowledge is power.
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The Ferryman's Trial
Single-player alternative to Pinkman — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pinkman.
Death is searching for a successor. To claim his mantle, you must judge the souls of the dead during a surprisingly short, strange and unsettling job interview where every choice shapes the fate of humanity, including your own.