Single-player games like Johnny Chainsaw
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Johnny Chainsaw, 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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Jumphobia: Homeward Bound
Single-player alternative to Johnny Chainsaw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Johnny Chainsaw.
Jump, skip, hop and leap! Go as far as your little wheel can take you! Play as a little delivery bot from a far-flung future controlled by the monolithic "MARE" corporation, and find your way back home through the perilous deserts, dead forests, and untold wild lands that lie ahead.
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Tandem: A Tale of Shadows
Single-player alternative to Johnny Chainsaw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Johnny Chainsaw.
Tandem : A Tale of Shadows redefines the puzzle platformer genre with a unique gameplay and exceptional aesthetics. Help Emma and the teddy bear Fenton solve the mystery of the disappearance of the famous magician Thomas Kane.
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The Multi-Medium
Single-player alternative to Johnny Chainsaw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Johnny Chainsaw.
The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
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Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
Single-player alternative to Johnny Chainsaw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Johnny Chainsaw.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
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Hue
Single-player alternative to Johnny Chainsaw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Johnny Chainsaw.
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
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Teslagrad 2
Single-player alternative to Johnny Chainsaw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Johnny Chainsaw.
Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.
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Soulless: Ray Of Hope
Single-player alternative to Johnny Chainsaw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Johnny Chainsaw.
Soulless: Ray of Hope is a 2D story-driven platformer focused on atmosphere, exploration, and emotional storytelling in a dark, minimalist world.
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Thomas Was Alone
Single-player alternative to Johnny Chainsaw — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Johnny Chainsaw.
Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.