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Single-player games like Custodian: Beginning of the End

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Custodian: Beginning of the End, 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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    Minoria — Steam game cover

    Minoria

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Death's Gambit: Afterlife — Steam game cover

    Death's Gambit: Afterlife

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blasphemous 2 — Steam game cover

    Blasphemous 2

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all. 

    2023ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    HunterX — Steam game cover

    HunterX

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles. Use various styles of weapons and magic to experience your own fighting style and explore a great world.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Afterimage — Steam game cover

    Afterimage

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight — Steam game cover

    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune — Steam game cover

    Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    This is an anime-style Metroidvania game with an RPG progression system, numerous weapons for switching, and an emphasis on equipment building. It offers three switchable characters, smooth gameplay, impactful combat feedback, and anime-style story scenes.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GRIME — Steam game cover

    GRIME

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

    2021ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ori and the Blind Forest — Steam game cover

    Ori and the Blind Forest

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    “Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

    2015ActionDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hollow Knight — Steam game cover

    Hollow Knight

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED — Steam game cover

    DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.

    2018Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Temply Girls — Steam game cover

    Temply Girls

    Single-player alternative to Custodian: Beginning of the End — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Custodian: Beginning of the End.

    Temply Girls is a game in which you have to catch the rhythm and achieve high results

    2019IndieRPGCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →