Single-player games like Verlet Swing
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Verlet Swing, 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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Cyber Hook
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
Speed through a gorgeous retrowave world using parkour skills and a grappling hook to scale and ride walls in this fast-paced, 3D platformer. Blast enemies, manipulate time and abuse physics to avoid falling to your death.
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Clustertruck
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.
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Impulsion
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
Impulsion is a fast-paced first-person platformer designed to play with your nerves and reflexes! Make your way through 25 levels of increasing difficulty by manipulating physics to your advantage, shooting force fields to slow down or speed yourself up and the environment!
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Neon White
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
Neon White is a single-player speedrunning FPS where you can sacrifice your guns for godlike parkour moves.
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Youropa
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.
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SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
Like a bastard child of Quake 3 and Super Meat Boy, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell is truly hardcore and focuses on speed and fast reaction.
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DeadCore
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
DeadCore is a Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun. Become immersed in a futuristic and dreamlike adventure which will see you climb a huge Tower born from the void and truly put your capabilities to the test. Will you be able to reveal the secrets that lie beneath this fog-ridden world?
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Lovely Planet
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
A First Person Shooter Gun Ballet set in a cutesy abstract world. Jump and shoot your way through five worlds full of treacherous enemies with your trusty semi-automatic!
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...
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Passpartout: The Starving Artist
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Verlet Swing.
Even you can become a great artist! Wrestle subjectivity as you attempt to sell your art to rude customers in order to progress in this confusing art scene. The only thing threatening you is your expensive wine and baguette addiction! Will your art end up in the Louvre or on your parents' fridge?
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Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Verlet Swing.
Embark on your struggling artist adventure. Draw and sell art to cheeky critics to reclaim your lost art career. Explore the endearing art-starved town of Phénix and show them you're a true artist!
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Forge and Fight!
Single-player alternative to Verlet Swing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Swing.
Craft, Defeat, Repeat! As a blacksmith gladiator, you must experiment with over-the-top weapon builds and engage in frenzied fighting, either in the online arena or the open-ended sandbox mode.