Single-player games like Retrace the Light
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Retrace the Light, 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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MIO: Memories in Orbit
Single-player alternative to Retrace the Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to Retrace the Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Retrace the Light.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Kotama and Academy Citadel
Single-player alternative to Retrace the Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
In the Academy Citadel, strength reigns supreme: only the most powerful survive and thrive. Fight your way through the high-tech Academy in your quest to get the highest of honors for a student, and uncover secrets that can save it in its direst crisis in this 2.5D side-scrolling Metroidvania.
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Deepening Fire
Single-player alternative to Retrace the Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
Deepening Fire is a side-scrolling action adventure game. Choose different classes, with appropriate equipment, explore hidden complex map, defeat powerful enemies, expose the conspiracy of the chaotic world, experience the souls-like battle
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ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
Single-player alternative to Retrace the Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Retrace the Light.
Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?
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Void Sols
Single-player alternative to Retrace the Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
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AI LIMIT
Single-player alternative to Retrace the Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
In the distant future when civilization is on the verge of extinction, people follow the legend of the Elysium in the last city, Havenswell. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland sci-fi ARPG, you will play as Arrisa, a Blader with immortality, and explore the city ruin to find the hope of a new life.
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Death's Door
Single-player alternative to Retrace the Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Retrace the Light.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.