Single-player games like Impulsow
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Impulsow, 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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GravNewton
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.
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Aeon Drive
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
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Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
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N++ (NPLUSPLUS)
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Impulsow.
N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.
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Circa Infinity
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer by Kenny Sun, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.
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The Pedestrian
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Impulsow.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
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Octahedron: Transfixed Edition
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
Surf through a pulsating, underground world on platforms pulled from thin air in this challenging, psychedelic, rhythm-infused action platformer that has you defying gravity to a pumping beat.
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Semblance
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
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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Zodiac Hentai - Hellish Memory
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
In this game you have to memorize the cards while surviving a real hell of bullets, with illustrations of beautiful sexy girls. Challenge your skill, your reflexes, your memory and dodge the shots to leave the girls as they came into the world.
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Gimel Dimension
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
Defeat the Gimel invasion on this side shooter that explores the contrast lack between the projectiles and the background to create an unusual challenge that will confuse your head
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Memorise'n'run
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
Challenge your ability, your reflexes and your memory to avoid from the shots while you solve a memory game, because in Memorise'n'Run you need to memorize the cards while survive of a real bullet hell.
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Zodiac - Hellish Memory
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
Challenge your ability, your reflexes and your memory to avoid from the bullets to defeat the zodiac spirits while memorize the cards and survive of a real bullet hell with difficulties for all playstyles.
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GravKitten
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
Control gravity to overcome obstacles and traps Larger stages, collectibles, skins, leaderboards and more. Buy now and start your rage quits!
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Killer Worm 2
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Impulsow.
Is basic a classic "Snake" in reverse! You are a gladiator in an arena to die with a giant worm chasing you that grows as you get points. Run, dodge, collect points, power-ups and make combos to get the highest score while staying alive.
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EvoluShip
Single-player alternative to Impulsow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impulsow.
In this game with elements of roguelike, RPG and Bullet Hell, you control a ship with the power to absorb enemies and improve itself, but even then it won't be easy, because you'll face the hordes of enemies with a good variety of weapons that come randomly as you pass level.