Single-player games like One Dog Story
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to One Dog Story, 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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Gato Roboto
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
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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KUNAI
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.
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Alwa's Legacy
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
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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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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FOX n FORESTS
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
FOX n FORESTS is a 16-bit style action platformer with RPG elements! Switch seasons on the fly and wield your crossbow to unveil the mystery of the 5th season.
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Cosmobreeder Yiffai
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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Commander Keen
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with One Dog Story.
Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons: Episode 1: Marooned on Mars (Dec. 14th 1990) Episode 2: The Earth Explodes (1991) Episode 3: Keen Must Die! (1991) Commander Keen's very first adventure, and the debut of id's groundbreaking side-scrolling technology.
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Full Bore
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with One Dog Story.
Deep underground lies a reminder of Boarkind’s darkest hours. All it takes is one little boar to dig it back up. A block puzzler with an exploratory twist, Full Bore throws the player into an open world of crumbling mines, arcane ruins, and technological wonders with only curiosity to lead the way.
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Bio Menace
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with One Dog Story.
You are Snake Logan, a top CIA operative who likes to do things his own way. Metro City has fallen under the attack of hideous mutants and your mission is to fly recon over the city and report back. While circling over the city you're shot down by hostile forces and forced to crash land on the streets of Metro.
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BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
BDSM is the first satirical action RPG where you get to play Lou, Satan’s son! Get some booze, kill the traitors, save Hell and rescue the hottest demoness from the clutches of those nasty people and mega-corporations!
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Death, Soul & Robots
Single-player alternative to One Dog Story — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
In this captivating Metroidvania game you will take on the role of a cute kitty cat on its mission to find the soul of Planet 42 to rescue the Earth. Fight enemies and bosses, solve puzzles and explore levels in this fascinating game.