Single-player games like Cathedral
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Cathedral, 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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The Mummy Demastered
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cathedral.
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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Alwa's Awakening
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cathedral.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
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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Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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Astalon: Tears of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cathedral.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
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Infernax
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
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Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
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The Messenger
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Nother: an indie souls-like
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Enter the dangerous open world of Nother.
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Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
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Mega Man X Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cathedral.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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Wonder Boy Returns Remix
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cathedral.
Wonder Boy Returns Remix is remaked by remix with original Wonder Boy and Wonder Boy Returns Released 13 Oct, 2016 in steam.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.