Single-player games like Gutwhale
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Gutwhale, 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 Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gutwhale.
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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High Hell
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gutwhale.
High Hell is a neon-soaked, arcade-action first-person shooter from Terri Vellmann (Heavy Bullets) and Doseone (Enter the Gungeon, Gang Beasts).
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TowerClimb
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gutwhale.
TowerClimb is a difficult and rewarding procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. Enormous and mysterious towers of ancient unknown origin stand above humanity, extending to the heavens. Struggle forward as a weak human, driven by an iron will to reach the top.
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Flinthook
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gutwhale.
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
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BUTCHER
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gutwhale.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
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Sublevel Zero Redux
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gutwhale.
Sublevel Zero Redux is a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter in a universe where reality is falling apart. Use your zero-g gunship to fight through a vast underground facility, looting advanced weapons to destroy hordes of deadly enemies.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gutwhale.
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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Angvik
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gutwhale.
Angvik is a platform action game set in a joyful but unforgiving land.
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Mosa Lina
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gutwhale.
a hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works
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qomp
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are the Ball. Escape.
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Ord.
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gutwhale.
Ord. tells stories three words at a time.
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PRODUCER 2021
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.
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10mg: Always Down
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gutwhale.
10mg is a collection of 10 minute long games. Always Down is about going away.
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Geballer
Single-player alternative to Gutwhale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this mouse-only Bullet Hell, you create your own problems! Featuring unique and strange bullets, different gameplay modes, extreme secrets and even a level editor, Geballer wants to softly stimulate the reptilian part of your brain until you disappear completely.