Single-player games like Storm Boy
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Storm Boy, 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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Projection: First Light
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
Projection: First Light follows Greta on a puzzle-platforming adventure through a mythological shadow puppet world, as she embarks on a journey across cultures meeting legendary heroes.
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ABZU
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
From the art director of Journey®, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.
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Ever Forward
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.
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Aporia: Beyond The Valley
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
CRYNEGINE Indie Game of 2017. Featuring an incredibly detailed ancient world and a breathtaking soundtrack, Aporia: Beyond the Valley takes open world storytelling to new heights of adventure.
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Wandersong
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
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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Donut County
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
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Old Man's Journey
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.
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Semblance
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
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Gunscape
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Storm Boy.
Gunscape provides easy-to-use tools based on a block-placement interface everybody's already familiar with to create all types of maps. Don't like building stuff? Then just blast your way through hordes of monsters or duel with other players!
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Siegecraft Commander
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Create the ultimate fortress and wreak havoc, raining destruction on your enemies with catapult-flinging fun!
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Morphite
Single-player alternative to Storm Boy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Storm Boy.
Morphite is a casual atmospheric FPS, inspired by the classics. Research plants and animals, battle hostile entities, and unravel a mystery surrounding a rare material called Morphite.