Single-player games like Knife Hit Dash
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Knife Hit Dash, 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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Light in the dark
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Immerse yourself in unique gameplay and atmosphere of the game Light in the shadow. You are waiting for an adventure in the mysterious maze, where your main character is a glowing sphere. You will move around the dark corners of the maze lighting the way in search of an exit, to reach the end you have to maintain inner glow using energy...
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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knife Hit Dash.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knife Hit Dash.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knife Hit Dash.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knife Hit Dash.
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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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knife Hit Dash.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Papers, Please
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knife Hit Dash.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knife Hit Dash.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
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Ninja jump
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knife Hit Dash.
Jump from roof to roof, look at the scale, the higher the scale at the moment you touch the screen, the higher and further the jump!
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Evolution
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Evolution is an atmospheric arcade with elements of a runner performed in an interesting visual style, in which your task is to bring your little character to the end of each level, avoiding the many dangers that await him at every turn.
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Adventure of a Digger
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The player must collect all the gold in a level while avoiding guards who try to catch the player. After collecting all the gold, the player must touch the top of the screen to reach the next level.
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Drunk Puppet
Single-player alternative to Knife Hit Dash — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Drunk Puppet is the most realistic walking simulator you'll be playing this year! Keep calm, because you are waiting for insurmountable difficulties, such as careless drivers and an inexplicable inability to step on the cracks on the sidewalk. You will laugh. You will cry.