Single-player games like Nightshade
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Nightshade, 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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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightshade.
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II picks up where the award-winning Dark Forces™ game left off...with even more features and firepower in dazzling 3D graphics. As Kyle Katarn, you must acquire a lightsaber and learn the ways of the Force to become a Jedi Knight.
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Downwell
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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Cyber Shadow
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightshade.
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.
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The Mummy Demastered
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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9 Monkeys of Shaolin
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
The true rebirth of iconic beat 'em up genre in vein of old-school video games! As a simple Chinese fisherman Wei Cheng you have to avenge the death of your friends and family slaughtered in a pirate raid at your peaceful village.
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Krush Kill ‘N Destroy 2: Krossfire
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Krush Kill 'N Destroy 2: Krossfire is a fast and furious post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game where you have to be quick or be dead. Play as one of three unique factions in the struggle to seek out and conquer oil fields to fuel your army.
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The Dame Was Loaded
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nightshade.
An adventure set in the world of a 1940s private eye. Dames are trouble, but trouble is your business. In a sleazy world of corrupt officials, stolen diamonds, lust and murder, you must solve the case and stay alive.
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Radical Rex
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
Radical Rex is a fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus on a skateboard who has to save the dinosaur race under the spell of an evil creature.
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Power Punch II
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightshade.
It's the year 2006. You're Mark "Tough Guy" Tyler and you've just defended your your Heavyweight title from the 9th consecutive time. After demolishing the best boxers on the planet. It's now time to face-off with the best in the Universe.
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Alien Earth
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightshade.
The evil Raksha have taken over the Earth. They hunt humans for sport - and you're next! Can the hunted become the hunter....?
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DethKarz
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightshade.
You're one of the elite racers chosen to compete at exotic locations around the world and beyond. Strap yourself into a fusion-powered racing machine for an explosive and exhilarating futuristic racing experience.
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Bop'N Wrestle
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightshade.
Grapple your way to the top as Gorgeous Greg in this colorful classic, hailed as one of the first great pro wrestling games. BOP'N WRESTLE puts you in the ring with 10 of the meanest, baddest, biggest, toughest, ugliest pro wrestlers ever to fly off a turnbuckle!
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Penetrator
Single-player alternative to Nightshade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nightshade.
In this addictive side-scrolling shoot-em-up from 1982, your mission is to penetrate through four defence rings, and blow up an illegal cache of neutron bombs - an almost impossible feat! Enemy missiles and radar bases track your movements, and the landscape is as treacherous as your enemies.