Single-player games like Cubes and Knights
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Cubes and Knights, 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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THE DEEPEST CASTLE
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
You are a mighty knight - how powerful your blows are! And in the very center of a vast forest lies a fortress filled with evil and black magic. There, they raise the dead and hide great artifacts. You decide to explore the fortress and see what the black magicians are hiding.
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Lichenvale
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Lichenvale is a first person slasher offering fast-paced melee combat mixed with tactical use of spells and dashing around your enemies. Battle through nightmarish hordes of monsters representing your innermost fears in this 90's hits inspired title.
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Arthurian Legends
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Arthurian Legends is a medieval first person action game set in the land of Albion during a time of myth and legend. Battle hordes of Saxons, demonic beasts, the undead and worse in thy quest to save Albion from The Masters of the Old Religion.
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Driven Out
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Beautiful 16 bit retro art style with fluid animations and deliberate combat. Read the enemy and act accordingly in this seamless world without any load screens.
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The Morrigan
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Step into this world of beautiful stylised graphics and explore striking, handcrafted environments - torch in one hand, big axe in the other. Built exclusively for VR.
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Pharaonic
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Embark on a journey of exploration and violence in the Two Lands of Egypt with Pharaonic! This unforgiving Combat RPG features an streamlined and challenging combat system that will keep you on your toes while fighting for your life!
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The Rangers In The South
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Purge the lands in this 2.5D HD Pixelart RogueLike ARPG! Create hundreds of characters with unique strategies and abilities, face hordes of enemies, explore different biomes, procedurally generated dungeons, and obtain unique items!
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Strife: Veteran Edition
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
Hailed as the original FPS-RPG game that spawned countless imitators, Strife: Veteran Edition is a love letter to the classic from 1996.
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DUSK
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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Strife®
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
Strife® is a truly free to play, competitive, MOBA that features non-stop action and engaging combat. Take control of powerful and versatile heroes, each capable of dominating in unique ways, and exert your will in an epic battle between two teams.
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HeXen II
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cubes and Knights.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse lurk in the shadows before you. They are Death, Pestilence, Famine, and War. They are the root of all that is evil, but the least of your worries. The last of the three Serpent Riders yet lives.
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Way of Gold and Steel
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cubes and Knights.
What is in the "Way of Gold and Steel" which makes it interesting? Main reason is the unusual gameplay style — combination of a real-time strategy (RTS) and a roguelike.
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Planet in the Shadows
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
Inspired by the dungeon crawler genre, this short game blends traditional spelunking with base building mechanics. The player is stranded on a hostile planet, urged to build a base and defend it against the awfully aggressive forces of the hostile environment.
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Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cubes and Knights.
Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike is a mostly classic RPG/Roguelike with a vast game world. The game has dozens of dungeons and items, and hundreds of unique enemies. There is a great variety in magic, curses and item enchantments.
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Autumn Night 3D Shooter
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
A 3D shooter made in the spirit of the the 90s' FPSes. Atmospheric pixel graphics, fast-paced action, focus on pure gameplay, made using a software renderer written from scratch.
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Daemonic Runner
Single-player alternative to Cubes and Knights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cubes and Knights.
Grab a rusty sword, gain some momentum, and send everyone flying in this aggressive joust. Sweep your foes away like a hurricane and cross bottomless chasms with giant leaps.