Single-player games like Starry Knight
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Starry Knight, 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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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starry Knight.
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.
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Constance
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starry Knight.
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
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MIO: Memories in Orbit
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starry Knight.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
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AI LIMIT
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starry Knight.
In the distant future when civilization is on the verge of extinction, people follow the legend of the Elysium in the last city, Havenswell. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland sci-fi ARPG, you will play as Arrisa, a Blader with immortality, and explore the city ruin to find the hope of a new life.
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Scrabdackle
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starry Knight.
The magical misadventure of a novice wizard thrown (literally) into the unfamiliar world outside. Go on a sprawling hand-drawn adventure with spells to study, bosses to best, and a huge handcrafted world to traverse on the long journey home.
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Last Time I Saw You
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starry Knight.
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.
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Voidwrought
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starry Knight.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
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Crypt Custodian
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Starry Knight.
Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Starry Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starry Knight.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.