Single-player games like Kestrel
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Kestrel, 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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Night Poetry
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
Night Poetry is a story-driven rogue-lite RPG with an existential and subjective narrative! Face waves of enemies, collect XP, and experience your evolution by obtaining various power-ups, while uncovering the consequences of an uncertain past in an ancient and mysterious city...
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Toad On Fire
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
Smokey the toad is not your average amphibian. With a propane-fueled weed burner in hand, he charges into battle against a relentless force of hostile frogs in a race war that threatens to tear his world apart. It's up to him to emerge victorious and save his kind.
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Moon Tower
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
Play as a mechanical being, defeat all enemies, and retrieve the crucial item. Moon Tower is a fast-paced game where you must constantly dodge enemies and eliminate them within each room. Gain different abilities to strengthen yourself and enhance your power.
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Blue Sun Saga
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
Go on a quest to restore life to the world in this retro inspired shooter! You must be skillful and tactical as many will try to stop you! You are an exile after all which is a death sentence. But things may be as they seem on this journey.
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DIVINE PEARL™: Survivors
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
DIVINE PEARL™: Survivors is a bullet heaven survival game set in a shonen anime world, unleash energy wave attacks and increase your power level on each new planet visited!
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Don't Die, Collect Loot
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
It's time to become ridiculously powerful in an arcade roguelite RPG with no limits on your power! Guide your hero through infinite retro fantasy worlds, get loot, gain upgrades, and keep growing their power as you rip through hordes of enemies in the ultimate power fantasy!
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Earl vs. the Mutants
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Kestrel.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
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Gunlocked
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
A twin stick shooter without the twin stick, Gunlocked is a sci-fi action roguelike about careful positioning and upgrade selection. Manage unique targeting systems across multiple weapons and upgrades, as you battle legions of alien ships, and then do it all over again!
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PVNP
Single-player alternative to Kestrel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kestrel.
A classic Sokoban game but with a modern take. 50 levels to test your brain in a semi-open world.