Single-player games like Squirm
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Squirm, 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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Super Win the Game
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Squirm.
Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
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The End Is Nigh
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
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Squirreltopia
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
Squirrel-based 2D platformer
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Squidlit
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
Every day is a wonderful day for invertebrates! Come join the Squidlits of Blipston for a squishy adventure of spoopy castles, muffins, and wiggles! Made with classic handheld technology in mind, Squidlit strives to be the closest modern recreation of GameBoy game-design methods on the market.
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Downwell
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
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.
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Kero Blaster
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
C&F Inc. teleporters are going offline all over the place, and it's up to an intrepid frog employee to fix the situation.
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BUTCHER
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Squirm.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Squirm.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
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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Minit
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squirm.
Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.
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VVVVVV
Single-player alternative to Squirm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Squirm.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?