Single-player games like Recompile
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Recompile, 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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ReCore: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Recompile.
From creator Keiji Inafune and the makers of Metroid Prime comes the ReCore: Definitive Edition, an action-adventure crafted for a new generation. As one of the last humans, forge friendships with robotic companions and lead them on an epic adventure through a dynamic world.
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Recompile.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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Akimbot
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Recompile.
In the action-adventure platformer, Akimbot, blast your way through armies of robots, pilot spaceships and forge your own path to save the universe from impending doom! Set in a sci-fi world where only robots exist, travel the galaxy and experience non-stop robot mayhem and explosive action!
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Axiom Verge 2
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Recompile.
Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.
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Valkyrie Saga
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Recompile.
Join Roll the Valkyrie as she subverts fate in a retro indie platformer taking after PSX classics. Climb, dash, jump, and glide your way up a falling sky island, to stop it from destroying the world below.
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BIOMORPH
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Recompile.
BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.
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Fe
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Recompile.
Run, climb and glide your way through a dark Nordic forest and explore its living, breathing ecosystem filled with secrets and mystical creatures. Become Fe and discover a world that you will never want to leave.
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Pseudoregalia
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Recompile.
Deep within the realm of sleep, Sybil finds herself pulled to a distorted castle. Grow strong, and unlock new abilities to build up a deep movement system, fight enemies, find secrets, and free the weary soul of Castle Sansa, in this retro-inspired 3D Platformer Metroidvania.
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TinyKeep
Single-player alternative to Recompile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Recompile.
TinyKeep, a top-down procedurally generated dungeon escape game with permadeath - you die and it's game over. Master the frantic physics-based combat, lure enemies into traps or make them fight each other for dominance. There are many ways to survive in TinyKeep!