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Single-player games like Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate, 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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    Entropy Survivors — Steam game cover

    Entropy Survivors

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    Entropy Survivors is a bullet hell roguelike where you simultaneously control a powerful mech and a sharpshooting space frog, featuring outrageously creative abilities and powerful weapon customization. Save the universe in single player or 2-4 player online co-op!

    2024ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire Survivors — Steam game cover

    Vampire Survivors

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Inkbound — Steam game cover

    Inkbound

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Children of Morta — Steam game cover

    Children of Morta

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?

    2019ActionIndieAdventure21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Risk of Rain Returns — Steam game cover

    Risk of Rain Returns

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!

    2023Action14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Metaverse Keeper / 元能失控 — Steam game cover

    Metaverse Keeper / 元能失控

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    Metaverse Keeper is a dungeon crawler with roguelike elements where four heroes join forces to save the “Metaverse" – created when a cosmic event tangled space-time. Explore randomly-generated worlds, customize your weapons, and fight crazy monsters – in solo or co-op mode!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SWORN — Steam game cover

    SWORN

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    SWORN is a 1-4 player co-op action rogue-like. Explore and reclaim a fallen Camelot from the reign of a corrupted Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

    2025ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vagante — Steam game cover

    Vagante

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Risk of Rain 2 — Steam game cover

    Risk of Rain 2

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate.

    Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.

    2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pipes.exe — Steam game cover

    Pipes.exe

    Single-player alternative to Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A first-person co-op horror experience for 1-4 players based on the thing you think it’s based on. Climb your way through testing environments as a low level QA employee for a Perfectly Legitimate Tech Company™. Survive a series of simulated assignments and brutal corporate life.

    AdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →