Single-player games like Skul: The Hero Slayer
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Skul: The Hero Slayer, 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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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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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Rogue Legacy 2
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
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Astral Ascent
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Wizard of Legend
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
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ScourgeBringer
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Have a Nice Death
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelike where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans. In order to restore order, you'll have to grab your trusty scythe and show your employees who's boss.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Revita
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!
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Spiritfall
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Spiritfall is a fast-paced Action Roguelite with combat inspired by Platform Fighters. Slash, smash, launch, and wall-splat a multitude of enemies using an ever-changing arsenal of divine powers.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
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.
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Neon Abyss
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
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暖雪 Warm Snow
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
'Warm Snow' is a Rogue-like action game with a background set in a dark fantasy world, where the eerie 'Warm Snow' holds sway. You will play as the Warrior 'Bi-an' on a crusade against the Five Great Clans, in order to save a world teetering on the brink of destruction.
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Metroidvania
Single-player alternative to Skul: The Hero Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skul: The Hero Slayer.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.