Single-player games like Bomb Chicken
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Bomb Chicken, 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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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
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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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
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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Owlboy
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
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Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
The title says it all. Take one part falling block puzzle game, combine one part old-school platformer, add a couple thousand pixels, blend and serve. Why match colored blocks when you can just shoot the hell out of them? Your goal is to survive as long as you can. From celebrated indie developer Andrew Morrish and Adult Swim Games.
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Pinstripe
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bomb Chicken.
An ex-minister ventures through the frozen depths of Hell in search of his kidnapped daughter.
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Out There Somewhere
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
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Hob
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
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Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bomb Chicken.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
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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Test Subject
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
An action-packed single-player FPS where you fight your way off an alien ship using fists and power-ups. Test your strength, wits, and resilience to survive and escape.
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Shovel Knight Dig
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!
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Tower Fortress
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
A mysterious tower has risen! It emits plumes of noxious green smoke from its summit making people sick. Strange creatures infest the tower but if nobody tries to ascend it we will all be doomed! Are you that hero?.....
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Gunbrick: Reloaded
Single-player alternative to Bomb Chicken — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bomb Chicken.
In a future where cars are obsolete, the Gunbrick has become a worldwide sensation! Encounter wasteland mutants, crazed nerds, law enforcement and all manner of cube based adversaries in this action packed puzzle platformer.