Single-player games like Buckler 2
Below are 13 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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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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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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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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99 Levels To Hell
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
99 Levels to Hell is a platform shooter with lots of guns, upgrades, magic, traps and monsters to kill. 99 Levels to Hell is a rogue-like, which means surviving is key and every time you play you get a new set of levels to play. When you complete 10 levels, the 10th being a boss-fight you unlock a door to the next dungeon.
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Abyss Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
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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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Astral Ascent
Single-player alternative to Buckler 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Buckler 2.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
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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?