Single-player games like Apotheon
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Apotheon, 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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Apotheon Arena
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Apotheon Arena is the free online-multiplayer complement to the mythic Greek action RPG, Apotheon. Pit your skills with spear and shield against other players in brutal bronze-age combat. Battle across the statuesque arenas of Olympus, depicted with beautiful black-figure pottery artwork.
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Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
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Abathor
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Abathor is a challenging 2D action platformer for solo play or up to 4 players. Embark on an epic 16-bit quest inspired by Golden Axe, Rastan, and Castlevania IV. Traverse Atlantis, battle demons, and defeat vicious bosses to save your progress! Enjoy an amazing OST from classic-era musicians!
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
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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Dex
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Guacamelee! 2
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
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God of War
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Apotheon.
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
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Metroidvania
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.
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Wytchwood
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apotheon.
Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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Capsized
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
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DuneCrawl
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
DuneCrawl is an open world action-adventure game, where you take to the sandy seas atop a gigantic crustacean festooned with black powder cannons. Play as a solo Crab Keeper, or with a crew of up to three other friends in local and online coop.
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Maximum Override
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Maximum Override is a chaotic city destruction game where the machines come alive. Wreak havoc in a fully destructible randomly generated city with anything you can find.
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Autocraft
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Apotheon.
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
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Modbox
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR
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GUNHEAD
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Gunhead is a fast paced strategic roguelike FPS where you take the role of a pirate mech with a gun for a head, looting derelict spaceships filled with monstrous drones made out of bone and steel. Sequel to the 2d roguelite Cryptark.