Single-player games like Mini Ghost
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Mini Ghost, 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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Ghost 1.0
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
A mysterious agent, capable of becoming a digital ghost, sneaks aboard the Nakamura Space Station. This is where the fun begins: the station is well-protected with its heavy defences, never-ending arsenal of weapons, and mysterious artifacts. It will all have to be destroyed.
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Alwa's Awakening
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mini Ghost.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
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Gato Roboto
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
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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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
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 Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
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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Rabi-Ribi
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...
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Foregone
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
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Chasm
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
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Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
Join Pampas and Selene as they overcome monsters, demons, and the Dark Priest with the help of the gods themselves! Explore this co-opvania 8-bit platformer alone or with a friend. This retro game is a loving tribute to an MSX2 masterpiece from the creator of UnEpic, Ghost 1.0, and UnMetal.
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UnEpic
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.
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La-Mulana
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
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California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
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Metroidvania Maker
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
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Nogalious MSX
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
Nogalious MSX is a retro action platformer that pays homage to the era of classic 2D platforming on 8-bit personal computers. Explore 5 different worlds and go through cozy dungeons in the first title of a trilogy that tells the story of Nogalious, his daughter Mariet, and the evil Darama.
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UnMetal
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mini Ghost.
UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.
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Afraid Project
Single-player alternative to Mini Ghost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mini Ghost.
What you do in the game becomes reality!