Single-player games like The End Is Nigh
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The End Is Nigh, 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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BROTHER!!! Save him! - Hardcore Platformer
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
The legendary game is now on Steam! Can you prove that you are a good player, go through a difficult path and save your brother? This challenge is not for wimps!
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Hirocato - The Delivery Hero
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Jump, dash, rewind, and deliver food on time in Hirocato - The Delivery Hero! Play as Cato, a crazy cute cat on a food delivery mission. Parkour through tricky levels, avoid obstacles, and rewind time to fix mistakes. Enjoy hand-made pixel art and great music. Can you complete every delivery?
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Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
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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Rusted Moss
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
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Jump King
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...
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Slime-san: Superslime Edition
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
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VVVVVV
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The End Is Nigh.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Mewgenics
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The End Is Nigh.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The End Is Nigh.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
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The Legend of Bum-Bo
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The End Is Nigh.
A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!
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The Basement Collection
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The End Is Nigh.
A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!
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Fingered
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The End Is Nigh.
GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!
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Gish
Single-player alternative to The End Is Nigh — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.