Single-player games like Shovel Knight Dig
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Shovel Knight Dig, 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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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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Have a Nice Death
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
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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Revita
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
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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30XX
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Skul: The Hero Slayer
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
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Rogue Legacy 2
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
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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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
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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Downwell
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other!
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Bomb Chicken
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer.
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Tower Fortress
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
A mysterious tower has risen! It emits plumes of noxious green smoke from its summit making people sick. Strange creatures infest the tower but if nobody tries to ascend it we will all be doomed! Are you that hero?.....
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Gunbrick: Reloaded
Single-player alternative to Shovel Knight Dig — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
In a future where cars are obsolete, the Gunbrick has become a worldwide sensation! Encounter wasteland mutants, crazed nerds, law enforcement and all manner of cube based adversaries in this action packed puzzle platformer.