Single-player games like Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003)
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003), 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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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (2001)
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, reassume the role of Raziel, and travel back through the currents of time into various eras of Nosgoth's past in your relentless pursuit of Kain.
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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
As Raziel, stalk the shadows of Nosgoth preying upon your former vampire brethren in your quest to destroy your creator- Kain. After being betrayed and executed by Kain, return to Nosgoth on an epic mission of revenge. A milestone in 3D adventure.
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Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Cast down from power by a mysterious warlord centuries ago, Kain reawakens in a world he barely recognises. His armies slain, his vampire brethren nearly extinct, Kain is one of the last of his kind. With an agenda of vengeance, Kain shall unleash a wicked wrath to uncover the plot that threatens the land he seeks to conquer.
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Koshmar: The Last Reverie
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
When a city falls to a sleeping plague, nightmares rise up. Awaken the city as a mortician’s daughter who walks the line between the sleeping and the waking. Fight through the dreams, seal the rifts, make choices that chip away at who she is, try to become the nightmare that nightmares fear.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Dracula, weak and yearning release from immortality, must reclaim his powers and defeat Satan. An epic fantasy adventure set in an expansive modern-day world!Awoken after centuries of slumber, weakened and yearning for release from his immortal bonds, Dracula must reclaim his powers and make a pact with Death, to defeat Satan and gain...
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Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Play as the vampire Kain and his betrayed lieutenant Raziel. Wield legendary blades, use supernatural abilities, and battle through a world of conflict, intrigue, and prophecy as their paths collide across the dark world of Nosgoth.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
This sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow reveals the story of the Belmonts as they battle destiny across generations to discover their true fate. Trevor Belmont, knight of the Brotherhood of Light, embarks on an epic quest to avenge his mother who was killed by his father Gabriel.
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Alice: Madness Returns
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.
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Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
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Uncharted Waters II
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"Uncharted Waters II" was released in 1993, the second game of the series. It is set primarily in Europe of the 16th century, the time of exploration. Players choose from among 6 different characters, each with their own background.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider™
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration includes the base game and Season Pass featuring all-new content. Explore Croft Manor in the new “Blood Ties” story, then defend it against a zombie invasion in “Lara’s Nightmare”.
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.
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Marvel's Avengers - The Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Assemble your team of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, embrace your powers, and live your Super Hero dreams.
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Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Discover Lara Croft’s Original Adventures, Lovingly Restored – Now with New Challenge Mode
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Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Tomb Raider: Anniversary retraces Lara Croft's original genre-defining adventure globe-trotting 3rd person action-adventure in pursuit of the legendary Scion artifact. Using an enhanced 'Tomb Raider: Legend' game engine, the graphics, technology and physics bring Lara's adventure and pursuit of a mystical artifact known only as the...
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Tomb Raider: Underworld
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Tomb Raider: Underworld represents a new advancement in exploration-based gameplay. As fearless adventurer Lara Croft explore exotic locations around the world, each designed with an incredible attention to detail resulting in breathtaking high-definition visual fidelity that creates a truly believable world and delivers a new level of...
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Tomb Raider: Legend
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003).
Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.