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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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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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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Blasphemous 2
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
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Dark Devotion
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
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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GRIME
Single-player alternative to The Guise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Guise.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
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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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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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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.