Single-player games like Space Gladiators
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Space Gladiators, 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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Lost Potato
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly. Push them into spikes, reflect bullets and help a young potato find its way out of a jungle filled with man-eating tribes!
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Space Gladiators: The Hole
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Ever dreamt of being a space potato? Now’s your chance! This is the prelude for Space Gladiators, a 2D hand-drawn roguelite platformer following a bunch of captives fighting their way out of a planet prison. Defeat hordes of aliens in the gladiatorial arenas and earn your freedom!
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Eyes in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
Fight with light against the dark in this "roguelight" platformer starring Victoria Bloom! Drive back the darkness that's overrun Bloom Manor and conquer swarms of creatures as you discover powerful new items to upgrade your arsenal. Are you ready to enter the ever-changing manor?
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Spelunky 2
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
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Doomsday Hunters
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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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Dungreed
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Dungreed is a 2D side-scrolling action game with 2D Rogue-LITE elements. You become an adventurer exploring a continuously evolving dungeon to prevent the town from being destroyed. Eliminate enemies, use a variety of weapons and magic, eat food, and defeat evil in the dungeon!
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UnderMine
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Space Gladiators.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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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Brotato
Single-player alternative to Space Gladiators — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.