Single-player games like The Guise
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Guise, 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 The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
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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Nightmare: The Lunatic
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
Nightmare: The Lunatic is a parrying action rogue-lite platformer game about escaping a nightmare. Constantly swap between 3 weapons, use special attacks, and avoid and parry enemy attacks. Strengthen yourself by collecting powerful and unique totems.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
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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ScourgeBringer
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
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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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
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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Foregone
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
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MIO: Memories in Orbit
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
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UltraGoodness
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
Tear your enemies to pieces in this top-down action-roguelike shooter. Leave oceans of blood and mountains of corpses in new dynamic and colorful action designed in pixel art style. All in the name of Goodness, of course!
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UltraGoodness 2
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
The struggle between Good and Evil continues in this bloody action, top-down action-roguelike shooter where time moves only when you move or shoot. Tear Satan's forces to pieces, leave oceans of their blood and mountains of demon's corpses in the name of Goodness!
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Acceptance
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
A story-driven psychological thriller about the horrific consequences of a loved one's suicide.