Single-player games like Psychonauts 2
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Psychonauts 2, 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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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Psychonauts 2.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Pumpkin Jack
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!
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Alice: Madness Returns
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.
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Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!
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Tinykin
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!
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Papo & Yo
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Blast your way through an interdimensional adventure with Ratchet and Clank – now on PC! Help them take on an evil emperor from another reality as you jump between action-packed worlds and beyond at hyper-speed!
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Orbo's Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Hop into Orbo's shoes! Run, jump and drill around your boss's office, make some new friends, and uncover terrifying secrets about the company you work for in this comedically surreal 3D platformer!
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A Hat in Time
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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A Short Hike
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Supraland
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
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Sunset Overdrive
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.
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Brutal Legend
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
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Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Costume Quest
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.
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Full Throttle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Psychonauts 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Psychonauts 2.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.