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Single-player games like Thetaball

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Thetaball, 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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    City Climber — Steam game cover

    City Climber

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Sports with Thetaball.

    City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world. Find your way through diverse hand-crafted environments and enjoy funny challenges full of falling and destruction.

    2017ActionSportsIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AO Tennis 2 — Steam game cover

    AO Tennis 2

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Sports with Thetaball.

    AO Tennis 2 is the only tennis experience designed for and by its community. Create your own players, stadiums and legendary matches. Enter the competition to reach the top of world tennis in Career Mode.

    2020Sports9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fight Crab — Steam game cover

    Fight Crab

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Sports with Thetaball.

    Welcome to Fight Crab.A new 3D action game where you take control of a crab, and fight off other giant enemy crabs.Physics allows for crabs to move powerfully and quickly in this hardcore battle arena.Freely control your pincers to use weapons and develop your own crab fighting style.

    2020ActionSportsIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kopanito All-Stars Soccer — Steam game cover

    Kopanito All-Stars Soccer

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Sports with Thetaball.

    Fast-paced football game without a referee on the pitch and with crazy super-powers! It may not look serious, but we guarantee, that it is. Kopanito’s match engine is well-balanced and entirely skill-based.

    2016ActionSportsIndie5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge — Steam game cover

    TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Sports with Thetaball.

    For bikers, there are two types of speed races: the Isle of Man TT and the rest. No race is more difficult. Take up the challenge of the legendary Snaefell Mountain course: all 37.73 miles faithfully reproduced with the champions and their bikes.

    2018ActionSportsSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lonely Mountains: Downhill — Steam game cover

    Lonely Mountains: Downhill

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Sports with Thetaball.

    Just you and your bike - take it on a thrilling ride down an unspoiled mountain landscape. Make your way through thick forests, narrow trails and wild rivers. Race, jump, slide and try not to crash - all the way from the peak to the valley!

    2019ActionSportsIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    UFO 50 — Steam game cover

    UFO 50

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thetaball.

    UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heavenly Bodies — Steam game cover

    Heavenly Bodies

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thetaball.

    Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rocket League® — Steam game cover

    Rocket League®

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Sports with Thetaball.

    Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...

    2015ActionSportsIndieDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Play With — Steam game cover

    Play With

    Single-player alternative to Thetaball — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thetaball.

    Tired of the old "WASD/ZQSD" key binding ? Want to challenge you with some weird key bindings ?PlayWith is a 2D hardcore platform game where every level have a different key bindingDid you ever jumped with "Y", got to the left with "5" and to the right with "E" ?

    2022ActionIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →