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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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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Rogue Legacy 2
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
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Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
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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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Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
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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Minoria
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
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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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Vigil: The Longest Night
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Embark on a journey through the longest night with Leila, a valiant member of the Vigilant Order. Delve into the hidden truths shrouded in eternal darkness, unravel the mystery surrounding Leila's enigmatic sister, and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in a world that has lost the light of day.
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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 Maker
Single-player alternative to Apotheon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apotheon.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
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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.