Single-player games like Tanglewood
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Tanglewood, 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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Martin and the Magic Staff
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Discover the world of a fabulous puzzle platformer in the pixel art style. You have to help the aspiring magician to pass all the challenges and fill his sorcerous staff with pure magic.
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Shovel Pirate
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
X marks the spot! Follow the map and find hidden treasures.
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PostBear Tales
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
You are a bear, a PostBear, the best one! And you have an important mission, deliver a King's letter to the neighbor kingdom!
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Freedom Planet 2
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!
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Biolab Wars
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Inspired by the 8-bit games and by the movies from the 80's, your goal is to blow things up, defeat aliens and fight bizarre bosses in this platformer 2D with classic mechanics.
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Super Catboy
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Super Catboy is an action-packed platformer created in a high-bit pixel art style, combining the best elements of the golden 16-bit platformer era of the 90s with some ‘pawsome’ new mechanics! And let’s not forget; there’s plenty of CAT CONTENT!
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Cybarian: The Time Travelling Warrior
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Cybarian The Time Travelling Warrior is a classically inspired arcade action game, with a mixture of modern and retro gaming tropes.
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Aeon Drive
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
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LIMBO
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
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Sonic Generations Collection
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tanglewood.
Celebrate 20 years of Sonic in an all new adventure that delivers a definitive experience to Sonic fans new and old!
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Sonic CD
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It’s time to usher the past into the future in this enhanced recreation of Sonic CD! Sonic travels to the distant shores of Never Lake for the once-a-year appearance of Little Planet - a mysterious world where past, present, and future collide through the power of the Time Stones that lie hidden within it.
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INSIDE
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tanglewood.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
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the another world
Single-player alternative to Tanglewood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
The Another World is a fantasy-themed adventure game where you have to defeat the monster king, but before that, you have to find a key to open each door to reach the monster king, and every time you look for the key, there will be monsters in your way! Be careful