Single-player games like Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, 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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Wandersong
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!
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Yooka-Laylee
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
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TurnOn
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
"TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and detailed platformer without platforms.
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Thank Goodness You're Here!
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
Thank Goodness You're Here! is an absurd comedy slapformer set in the bizarre Northern English town of Barnsworth. As a traveling salesman, take the time to see the sights and meet the locals, who are very eager to give you a series of increasingly odd jobs…
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Time in Time
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
Time in Time is a side scroller puzzle-platformer game where you control everything with timers..
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Super Meat Boy Forever
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
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Toki Tori
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. To progress through the game, the player must pick up each egg in a level using a set number of tools.
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Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.
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Mega Man 11
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Mega Man is back! The newest entry in this iconic series blends classic, challenging 2D platforming action with a fresh new visual style. The new Double Gear system boosts Mega Man's speed and power for a new twist to the satisfying gameplay the series is known for.
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Super Marrow
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
Super Marrow is a cozy farming game about growing giant watermelons. Plant, nurture, upgrade, and stack powerful growth boosters to grow your melons to ridiculous sizes, enter competitions, and grow the biggest melon the world has ever seen.
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Yooka-Replaylee
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the collectibles to uncover. Can you help them rescue the world’s biggest treasure?
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Super Yooka-Laylee Kart
Single-player alternative to Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.
The most skilful, expressive and explosive racer built around mastery, rivalry, and revenge-fuelled comebacks. Race through a solo campaign, compete against rivals online, or create your own custom race setups and challenge your friends.