Single-player games like VVVVVV
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to VVVVVV, 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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1 Screen Platformer
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
- 2
Scoot Kaboom and the Tomb of Doom
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
Scoot Kaboom and the Tomb of Doom is a fiendishly fun action platformer that all takes place on one enormous screen. Run, dive and dodge through the twisting maze, evading spikes, saws, fireballs, portals and even more and escape the Tomb of Doom!
- 3
Trash Quest
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with VVVVVV.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
- 5
iZBOT
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
iZBOT is fast paced, double jumping, wall sliding, edge of your seat platformer that delivers delicious bite sized challenging platforming levels while always keeping you in the action.
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Super Magbot
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
- 7
Aeon Drive
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
- 8
Downwell
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
- 9
POLYBIUS
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with VVVVVV.
POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR. 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action are set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine's VR GOTY in 2017, and the PC version of the game was even used as the basis for a NIN music video.
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California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
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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Tomb of Mask
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with VVVVVV.
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- 13
Super Hexagon
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with VVVVVV.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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Dicey Dungeons
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with VVVVVV.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
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Terry's Other Games
Single-player alternative to VVVVVV — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with VVVVVV.
Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!