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Single-player games like The Excrawlers

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to The Excrawlers, 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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    Obsurity — Steam game cover

    Obsurity

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Discover all the secrets of two completely different worlds.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hunt the Night — Steam game cover

    Hunt the Night

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Hunt the Night is a retro-style action-RPG that blends fast, skillful combat with dark fantasy lore. Play as Vesper, a member of the Stalkers, and traverse the ruined world of Medhram on a mission to save humanity from a deadly cycle of annihilation.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers — Steam game cover

    WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Going Under — Steam game cover

    Going Under

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.

    2020ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Death's Door — Steam game cover

    Death's Door

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Devil Slayer - Raksasi — Steam game cover

    Devil Slayer - Raksasi

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Devil Slayer - Raksasi is a top-down action game with procedurally generated dungeons, profound roguelike elements, and intuitive soul-like fighting. It's a fair and challenging game, dodging, timing, striking, you need to master them all to fight your way out of this cursed world.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure10.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition — Steam game cover

    Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Battle hordes of yokai in this masocore Action RPG. Create your protagonist and embark on an adventure through a myriad of locales across Japan during the Sengoku period. Utilize the new Yokai Shift ability to defeat even the most ferocious yokai and be prepared to brave through Dark Realms created by your enemies.

    2021ActionRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nioh 3 — Steam game cover

    Nioh 3

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    In the third game in the dark samurai action RPG series Nioh, you will need to use both Samurai and Ninja combat styles in your battles against formidable yokai as you explore a thrilling open field.

    2026ActionRPG55.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Obscurity — Steam game cover

    Obscurity

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Welcome to a dark but warm world! Obscurity is a small 2D game where the objective will be to deliver your little creature!

    2018StrategyIndieCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hades — Steam game cover

    Hades

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

    2020ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shiro — Steam game cover

    Shiro

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Shiro is an adventure platformer in which you have to find your missing sister

    2020ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DREAMOUT — Steam game cover

    DREAMOUT

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Explore a surreal world with a drunken alpaca! Solve puzzles, fish out the most unusual items from rivers, fight watermelon thugs, and uncover all the secrets of this world!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MiceGard — Steam game cover

    MiceGard

    Single-player alternative to The Excrawlers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.

    Play MiceGard, adventure game where viking mice fight for honor, fame and survival. Explore the world inspired by Norse mythology, meet with gods and warlocks and seize the glory of the fiercest mouse-warrior in this action-packed saga!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →