Single-player games like Dark Light
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Light, 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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System Purge
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.
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The Last Faith
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
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POWERNAUT DECAY
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
A tough exploration-based platformer with souls-like elements.
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Corrupt
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Survive in a dark and atmospheric action-platformer characterized by environments full of mystery and fearsome enemies.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
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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Among the Waves
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
A 2.5D metroidvania with the freedom of an immersive sim. Every fight and every path can be approached differently: through combat, stealth, or using the world’s mechanics. The story unfolds in a world where Orthodox aesthetics meet Soviet brutalism and traditional woodcraft
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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Nine Sols
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Enter the world of cinematic stealth action with Splinter Cell, the game that propelled the genre to cult status. You are Sam Fisher, an elite covert agent in the NSA's top-secret division: Third Echelon.
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Shadow Complex Remastered
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Light.
ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.
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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Light.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Robot terminator
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
This is a third person action adventure game，The player is on an island full of monsters，Players can explore freely in bad weather，The player must kill the monster or avoid the monster's attack and survive as long as possible.
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Terminator 2D: NO FATE
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Experience the thrill of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with arcade action & pixel-perfect graphics! In this unique story blending iconic scenes from the movie with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.
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Alien
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Alien is a visual novel exclusively for adults! This story is about a guy who has been dreaming of having sex with an alien woman for a very long time. At some point, this dream comes true and the guy finally fucked an alien woman!
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Castle of Vania
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
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Dark Light: Survivor
Single-player alternative to Dark Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
In a dying multiverse, the Phantom Train is your last hope. Traverse a post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk world of nightmarish creatures. Experience dynamic shifts between top-down and third-person views, deep customization, and epic battles across universes in this action roguelike survival game.