Single-player games like Quirky Crook
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Quirky Crook, 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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Duck Game
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Quirky Crook.
Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Quirky Crook.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Quirky Crook.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
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Super House of Dead Ninjas
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Quirky Crook.
Super House of Dead Ninjas is an action arcade game with roguelite elements. Race against a 30 second timer as you descend floor after foe-filled floor and attempt to unlock the secrets of this deadly tower!Play as the fearsome Crimson Ninja, wielding an arsenal of deadly ninja weapons and attacks.
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Gunpoint
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Quirky Crook.
Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.
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Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Quirky Crook.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
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Pix the Cat
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Quirky Crook.
Pix the Cat is a critically acclaimed intense arcade game that will challenge your reflexes and your wits, pitting you against your friends and the world in a race to the highest score!
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Mark of the Ninja
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Quirky Crook.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
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Four Sided Fantasy
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Quirky Crook.
A game about the limits of your screen. Four Sided Fantasy is a seamless experience where you wrap the screen to solve mind-bending puzzles. Play as a man and woman who attempt to find each other throughout four seasons in a year, constantly separated by the boundaries of the screen.
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Box Looter 2018
Single-player alternative to Quirky Crook — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Quirky Crook.
A dumb joke game in which loot boxes are the loot. Poke fun at loot boxes while poking at loot boxes. Climb the mountain and find the loot box of unknown riches that the prophecy foretold! The 2,018th game in the wildly popular Box Looter series.