Single-player games like Splinter Zone
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Splinter Zone, 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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Koboo: The Tree Spirit
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
Koboo is a fast paced action rogue-lite platformer where you battle against towering hunters as a small tree spirit by attacking their weak points. Forge powerful synergies, explore the Ancient Forest's branching paths, fish, catch bugs and garden to rebuild your home!
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Elsie
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
Elsie is a technicolour, hyperkinetic, rogue-like action-platformer filled with procedurally generated levels, an army of robots to blast through, and a wide scope of items & weaponry to make each run unique. Master countless magitek weapons and abilities in order to embrace the chaos.
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Quester
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
Assume control of a courageous adventurer and blaze through monster infested mazes. Dance with death as you balance fighting with scavenging for loot and power in this classic-arcade inspired roguelike.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Halved
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
Halved is a roguelike action RPG game with only 5 levels and 3 game modes, but innumerable possibilities for each run. Play as one of 5 characters and traverse the dangerous parts of the world with the help of the mysterious Father of all Machines against his rebel/tyrant son, S.A.N.E.D..
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GoNNER
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world - a giant landbound whale named Sally - by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
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Jetboard Joust
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
Fast & fluid arcade-style shooter with roguelike elements! Take flight on a lethal rocket-powered jetboard, blasting alien invaders with an explosive arsenal of ridiculous weaponry. Face off against massive, multi-stage bosses. Jetboard Joust resurrects the spirit of the arcade for the 21st century!
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GB Rober
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
It’s the year 202X. Bosses and Landlords rule over a dying world. Something has to be done. Someone has to fight for the people!
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Virtue's Heaven
Single-player alternative to Splinter Zone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Splinter Zone.
The world ends tomorrow, your friends are imprisoned and those responsible for both have stolen the future. The time for deliberation is over. It is time to be reckless, irresponsible and beautiful.