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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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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OUTBUDDIES DX
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
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Cyber Shadow
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
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 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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Chasm
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
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Horace
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
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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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Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Single-player alternative to Cathedral — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cathedral.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
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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.