Single-player games like THE DARK DWELLERS
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to THE DARK DWELLERS, 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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Solateria
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
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Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
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.
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Blasphemous 2
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
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.
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GRIME
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
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.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
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.
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Minoria
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
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.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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Moonscars
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with THE DARK DWELLERS.
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.
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Dark Devotion
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
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Clandestinity of Elsie
Single-player alternative to THE DARK DWELLERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with THE DARK DWELLERS.
World War Two veteran and mentally-damaged alcoholic Hayden Warrick awakens from a night of drinking to find that his wife Elsie has mysteriously disappeared.