Single-player games like Flashback
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Flashback, 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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Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Also known as Out Of This World™, Another World is a pioneer action/platformer that released across more than a dozen platforms since its debut in 1991. Along the years, Another World™ has attained cult status among critics and sophisticated gamers alike.
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IZBOT 2
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Flashback.
IZBOT 2 is a fast paced precision platformer that will test your mettle and will leave you always wanting to complete just one more level. Use your cat like reflexes to guide our hero IZBOT through buzz saws, lasers and a ton of pointy spikes to save the metropolis from the evil Bedlor once more.
- 3
Belle Boomerang
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
A fast-action platformer packed with beautiful pixel art and exciting variation in every level!
- 4
Palette Swap
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
A monochrome action platformer where the palette changes the environment around you
- 5
Glowmonkey2k
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Fight through a corrupted digital world as Glowmonkey, switching weapons on the fly to defeat enemies immune to the wrong attack.
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Proxyma
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Proxyma is a hardcore retro-style 2D platformer that challenges you to finish 13 increasingly hard levels in a single run.
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Robot-X
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
A fast-paced platform shooter inspired by 90s classics. Follow Robot-X on a journey to protect the city from a new danger, fight bosses and jump over pits in this retro experience.
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POGOMAN
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Flashback.
POGOMAN is a fast-paced physics platformer where you navigate tough, nerve-wracking levels on a pogostick. Master cool maneuvers, unlock abilities, and survive intense challenges as you bounce through unique biomes. Precision and timing are everything. Oh, and don`t get hit in the head.
- 9
Live the Life
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Live the Life is the first person life simulation game focused on the deep player's interaction with the environment. Design your apartment using advanced building features, visit stores to buy furniture, food and clothing you like, and more completely free content coming soon
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Robot terminator
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
This is a third person action adventure game，The player is on an island full of monsters，Players can explore freely in bad weather，The player must kill the monster or avoid the monster's attack and survive as long as possible.
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Future Wars
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Battle it out on the proving grounds and get ready for Future Wars. Similar to classic titles such as Advance Wars and Battle Isle, the game takes strategy gaming away from the micro-management overkill that it has become and using simple, proven rock-paper-scissors principles, reopens the genre to everyone.
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Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Built from scratch, enjoy breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New 'n' Tasty reignites the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee using the latest next-generation technology.
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The Running Man
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
If you want to relax, this game is not for you, this game is made to make you rage. go through challenging and hard levels and run to the finish line. will you take the challenge?
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Elijah and the Out of this World Adventure
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
A sci-fi action game that explores the great sites of Ohio!
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Flashback.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
- 16
PREDATOR AND WRECK
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Test your mettle with the award-winning stealth horror/sci-fi game PREDATOR AND WRECK. Keep your eyes and ears open, and be on the lookout for the strange, mutating, man-eating life form stalking the space station while you attempt to make your escape and unravel a mystery.
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Subject 13
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Flashback.
Play as Franklin Fargo, a quiet physics professor who has led a bitter existence ever since his fiancée died in a holdup in which he was supposed to be the victim. One morning, he wakes up in the middle of an abandoned scientific facility. His only link with the outside world is a voice that calls him "Subject 13".
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Flashback 2
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Immerse yourself in an action-packed cyberpunk universe where the fate of humanity itself hangs in the balance. The Morphs are preparing their final attack, determined to enslave every civilization in the Solar System — and it's your mission to fight back!
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DarkStone Restoration
Single-player alternative to Flashback — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Darkstone Restoration brings the classic action RPG back to modern PCs with improved stability, compatibility, controls, readability, and quality-of-life improvements — while preserving the spirit of the original game.