Single-player games like Golden Light
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Golden 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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Cruelty Squad
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Golden Light.
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Golden Light.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Golden Light of Rose
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Golden Light.
Eat weapons, be scared and question your own mind in this Survival-Horror FPS Prop Hunt Roguelike about meat. Golden Light of Rose is a story prequel to Golden Light which follows Rose during her first time in the gut.
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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Golden Light.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
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Dungeons of Blood and Dream
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Golden Light.
Play as a mighty Blood Wizard on a quest to escape a death-loop of psychedelic dungeons. Slay disgusting creatures using a large array of bladed weapons and unnerving spells, harness the power of cursed rings, find mysterious treasures, and learn the secrets of the universe you are trapped in.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golden Light.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Streets of Rogue
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Golden Light.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
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Picayune Dreams
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Golden Light.
Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]
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Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Golden Light.
A horror anthology shooter in the Dread X Collection series. Co-produced by DUSK creator David Szymanski. Featuring 7 new short games, a robust launcher world set in an abandoned arctic base.
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Golden Chambers
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Golden Light.
Welcome to REVOLVERPUNK! Chambers is a comedic RPG shooter set in the Weird Wild West! Cook the boomstick, fingercatch some bullets and wrangle that fella into your pocket!
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MECH PUNK
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Golden Light.
This game of being kidnapped against your will, with fishing
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Chambers: The Outlaw
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Golden Light.
Take a bite of GETTING CHAMBERED in the Wild West: improvise to survive. Feed and take care of your horses. Open World with warring factions. Skills and upgrades: catch bullets, eat hats, summon bears. Revolver Monsters!
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Dead Night Highway
Single-player alternative to Golden Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dead Night Highway is a compact colony simulator where a group of survivors on their journey west sets up camps to replenish resources, but zombie horde only grows larger...