Single-player games like Gurei
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Gurei, 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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Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Single-player alternative to Gurei — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Gurei.
An Oni Gauntlet-wielding samurai makes a stand in Kyoto against the encroaching Genma menace. Through gritty, blood-soaked brawls, he searches for his reason to fight. What fate awaits at the end of his path?
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Kusan: City of Wolves
Single-player alternative to Gurei — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gurei.
Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.
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Titan Souls
Single-player alternative to Gurei — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gurei.
Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.
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Furi
Single-player alternative to Gurei — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gurei.
The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.
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NanoApostle
Single-player alternative to Gurei — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gurei.
NanoApostle is a dark sci-fi boss rush action game featuring intense reaction-based combat and the unique "Destruction Point" system. Play as Anita, a child augmented with lethal nanomachines, as she battles against twisted cybernetic experiments to escape a top-secret facility.
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Void Sols
Single-player alternative to Gurei — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gurei.
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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GRIME II
Single-player alternative to Gurei — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gurei.
Become the stealer of forms in GRIME II, a surreal action-adventure metroidvania. Launch tendrils made of hands to absorb foes and summon molds in their shape, as you explore a bizarre lived-in-world obsessed with art.
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Nine Sols
Single-player alternative to Gurei — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gurei.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.