Single-player games like Buckler 2
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Buckler 2, 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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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Vertical Drop Heroes HD
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Buckler 2.
Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.
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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
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Flinthook
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
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Black Future '88
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Buckler 2.
Black Future ’88 is a Synth-Punk roguelike 2D action Shooter. Vertically climb an always evolving procedural tower to reach the top and kill its insane owner…before your heart explodes. Shoot, slash, dash and upgrade yourself to survive the endless waves of Homicidal AI, Traps & Colossal Wardens.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Buckler 2.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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Aestheta
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Buckler 2.
A roguelike royalelike about warriors from across space and time, fighting to claim a wish from the Star of Aestheta. Strategize your tactics, enhance your troops, and outwit your opponents to rise to the top!
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Solace Inc.
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
A survivors-like about a time-travelling company where you recruit your employees against endless hordes of enemies.
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Roseblight
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
Roseblight is an RPG about a gardener with a dark secret and a visitor from the cosmos. Explore the wild, challenge foes, recruit allies, and embrace your chains in an unforgiving world plagued with malice and destruction.
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Project Malice
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
An isometric roguelike third-person shooter about a ruined Earth and the unending chaos engulfing it. Fight hordes of the infected, gather loot, make allies, traverse spacetime, and venture into the depths of what we could've prevented.
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AploVVare Collection
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buckler 2.
You found an old game console along with some games at a garage sale. You remember playing these as a kid, and couldn't resist getting it. Maybe you could give them a whirl, just for old time's sake?
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Wife's Bedroom
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Buckler 2.
You hear loud noises from the other side of the house. Looks like your wife has some company over again. They probably won't mind if you watch.