Single-player games like The Free Ones
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Free Ones, 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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A Story About My Uncle
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...
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Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst raises the action-adventure bar through fluid, first person action and immerses players in Faith's story as she fights for freedom.
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Lorn's Lure
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
An android is led through a vast structure by a glitch in his visual system. Lorn's Lure is an atmospheric narrative first-person platformer with novel climb-anything mechanics and modernized retro 3D graphics.
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Youropa
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.
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Lemma
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
Immersive first-person parkour in a surreal, physics-driven voxel world. Every move can modify the environment. Surfaces pop in and out of existence at will.
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Downward: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity.
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DeadCore
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
DeadCore is a Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun. Become immersed in a futuristic and dreamlike adventure which will see you climb a huge Tower born from the void and truly put your capabilities to the test. Will you be able to reveal the secrets that lie beneath this fog-ridden world?
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Verlet Swing
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Verlet Swing brings you energetic swinging in a world that would be best described as a fever dream. Swing fast, don't crash and reach the goal as fast as possible!
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The Valley
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
Stuck in a spider invested valley, you must collect firearms and ammunition to survive the never ending waves of spiders. Test your skills and compare your highest wave.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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FarSky
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
FarSky is a short survival game in the depths of the Ocean. Collect all the pieces of your submarine and reach back the surface.
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Sky Break
Single-player alternative to The Free Ones — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Free Ones.
Sky Break is an open-world game on a stormy abandoned planet filled with wild mechas. Learn to master this world and to hack the mechas if you want a chance to survive.