Single-player games like Venture to the Vile
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Venture to the Vile, 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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Graviton Reloaded
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
Graviton Reloaded is a 2D-Platformer inspired by other metroidvanias and indie games. In-game, you play as an alien, Xeon, who traverses a facility which has succumbed to the sands of time, but somehow Xeon remembers this place when it was clean. ...almost as if the facility aged without her.
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Voice of Flowers
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
Embark on an epic adventure full of perils and secrets. Explore distinct forsaken lands of Devetlam and fight your way by jumping on your enemies or showering them with a plethora of magic spells. An open-world platforming action inspired by the classics.
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Peaky Circus
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
Explore a broken world filled with masks and monsters in this hand-drawn Metroidvania. Fight strange enemies and twisted bosses with your katana and shotgun umbrella, unlock powerful new abilities, and uncover the truth behind the masks of Peaky Circus.
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Phaze Shift
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift! A tag-team, action Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
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Crown Of Silence
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
Crown Of Silence is a 2D Metroidvania adventure with Souls-like mechanics set in a gothic world. Forge your own combat style with diverse equipment, challenge ruthless bosses, and uncover the dark secrets of a silenced kingdom through environmental storytelling.
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Winds Of Arcana: Ruination
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Venture to the Vile.
Discover the secrets of a sundered world as you help Aryn save his comrades in this story-rich, fully-voiced, 2.5D action-platformer. Fight terrible dangers and explore ancient mysteries as Aryn uncovers the forces that forge his destiny.
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LUCID
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Venture to the Vile.
Discover your own legend in LUCID. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and enhance combat against a diverse cast of enemies and bosses, all in gorgeous pixel art inspired by the golden age of 2D sidescrollers.
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Ebenezer and the Invisible World
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
Embark on a story-rich 2D Metroidvania adventure with breathtaking hand-drawn art, playing as miser-turned-hero Ebenezer Scrooge in a reimagined Victorian-fantasy based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, A Christmas Carol. Enlist the help of ghosts to save the people of London before it’s too late.
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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Venture to the Vile.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Shadow Complex Remastered
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Venture to the Vile.
ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.
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MARS 2120
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
Metroidvania with a mix of melee and ranged combats inspired by classics like Super Metroid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night or Guacamelee! Help Anna “Thirteen” Charlotte battle her way through the secrets of Mars.
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Airhead
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Venture to the Vile.
Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.
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DARQ: Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
DARQ tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to face his fears and decipher the meaning of the dream.
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Little Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Venture to the Vile.
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Venture to the Vile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Venture to the Vile.
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.