Single-player games like Projection: First Light
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Projection: First Light, 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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GRIS
Single-player alternative to Projection: First Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Projection: First Light.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
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Unravel
Single-player alternative to Projection: First Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Projection: First Light.
Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.
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Semblance
Single-player alternative to Projection: First Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Projection: First Light.
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Single-player alternative to Projection: First Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Projection: First Light.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
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Wandersong
Single-player alternative to Projection: First Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Projection: First Light.
A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!
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TurnOn
Single-player alternative to Projection: First Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Projection: First Light.
"TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and detailed platformer without platforms.
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Fly'N
Single-player alternative to Projection: First Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Projection: First Light.
Somewhere between a platformer, a puzzle game and a great big dollop of pure fun, Fly’N will challenge your skills through more than forty levels set in a luxuriant world. Experiment with the four Buds to save the World-Trees from Dyer, the loony hair-dryer who intends to destroy their Helys!
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Grapple Dog
Single-player alternative to Projection: First Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Projection: First Light.
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!