Single-player games like Duck Souls
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Duck Souls, 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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Fowl Damage
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Fowl Damage is an atmospheric puzzle platformer where your default jump provides enough fall damage to destroy you! Carefully manage your jumps and falls as you adventure through this chilling, beautiful, and occasionally cute world.
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Titan Souls
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Are you ready for the first Yoyovania?! In this 2D top-down adventure you'll explore a sprawling urban landscape, reinterpreting your surroundings through your mastery of yoyo tricks. Navigate the city's many districts, fight rival crime bosses, and regain the influence of the Pipistrello family!
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Skelattack
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Play Skelattack and save the Underworld in this fun action platformer! Together with your best bat friend Imber, you jump, slash, and flap your way though the Underworld and stop the human threat!
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Duck Game
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.
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The End Is Nigh
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Duck Souls.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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Pinkman
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Pinkman is a fast-paced, action platformer about a lost man with pink skin and an incredible skill to fart.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Duck Souls.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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Rabisco
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Help Ms. Rabisco to find the moon’s lost stars and bring back the light, in this cute but dangerous world, inspired by the World’s Hardest Game.
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Gardener's Path
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Duck Souls.
Gardener’s Path is a top-down turn-based puzzle game, about fighting giant insects and protecting underground gardens, through the use of magical artifacts.
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Steel Defier
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Duck Souls.
Are you ready to escape from your tight prison cell? A malfunction in the defense system of a transport spaceship accidentally killed everyone aboard, except for one last survivor… You and your suspiciously orange suit.
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The Ferryman's Trial
Single-player alternative to Duck Souls — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Duck Souls.
Death is searching for a successor. To claim his mantle, you must judge the souls of the dead during a surprisingly short, strange and unsettling job interview where every choice shapes the fate of humanity, including your own.