Single-player games like Smile'N'Slide
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Smile'N'Slide, 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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Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a brand-new 2.5D platformer from some of the key creative talent behind 'Donkey Kong Country'. As the colourful buddy duo you must tackle a series of stunning, 2.5D levels and explore a puzzling 3D Overworld rich with secrets and surprises!
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TurnOn
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
"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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Guacamelee! 2
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
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Grapple Dog
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
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Rad Rodgers - Radical Edition
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Bringing back the 90's-era PC platformer with a game inspired by classics like Commander Keen, Conker, Ruff'n'Tumble & Jazz Jackrabbit.
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Rochard
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Fast-paced platforming action and mind-bending puzzles based on gravity
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GRIME
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
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Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
"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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Fly in the House
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
There’s a fly in your apartment! Hunt it down and squish it! Damn, that fly is fast! If a fly swat won’t get it, use furniture. If that doesn’t work, use anything you can find… just squish it! The more you smash, the more points you earn.
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Inside The Gear
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
A physics puzzle game like no other! You are inside the big old machine. There are rusty gears and shafts all around you, along with interactive objects such as planks and cubes. Use each object and place the wheel on the platform – easy!
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Somewhere on Zibylon
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
The game is filled to the brim with the atmosphere of cold space and zero gravity, features unusual game mechanics with a lot of puzzles, exploration, stealth, resource extraction, crafting, fights with alien forces and seizing space stations!
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Bars and Balance
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
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Elbub
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
You are a bubble, flying among other bubbles. Relax and go on a journey!
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Balls and Magnets
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
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Pixelpunk XL
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Pixelpunk XL is a pixelated old school first person shooter with rogue-like game mechanics set in sci-fi environment.
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Zibbs - Alien Survival
Single-player alternative to Smile'N'Slide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smile'N'Slide.
Zibbs - Alien Survival is an open world game where you play as an alien trying to survive on the unknown planet - Earth.