Single-player games like Striving for Light: Survival
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Striving for Light: Survival, 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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Striving for Light
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.
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God Of Weapons
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
Embark on a thrilling journey in God of Weapons, an action roguelike where you must ascend the tower of Zhor to reclaim the last light for the world. To survive the monster onslaught on each tower's level, you'll need to obtain and carefully organize weapons and accessories in your inventory.
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Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
A roguelite survivor game set in the beloved world of Pathfinder. Enter Gallowspire, Pathfinder’s legendary tower of darkness, alongside your fearless companion. Slay hordes of enemies, upgrade your arsenal, and overcome deadly bosses to seal away the ancient king of undeath Tar-Baphon!
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Conquest Dark
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
Experience an ARPG's rapid ascension to power in minutes, packed with savage, survivors-like action and devastating sword & sorcery combat. Perfect your builds through Dark Ritual runs that will decide humanity's future as you battle endless hordes across haunting ruins and cursed kingdoms.
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Spell Disk
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
Build unique synergy spell combos to destroy the hordes of monsters and bosses in this rogue-lite action game.
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Heretical
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
Die. Adapt. Strike back. Climb Sanctora in this brutal Rogue-lite where every death unlocks powers, heroes, and paths to vengeance.
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Achilles: Survivor
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Striving for Light: Survival.
Thousands of enemies. One survivor. Fight like a demigod, build deadly defenses, and grow stronger after every run in this fast-paced bullet heaven set in mythic Greece.
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Nautical Survival
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
Captain an armed sea vessel to fight off hordes of oceanic terrors! Navigate between outposts to upgrade your boat, equip powerful weapons, manage your economy and hire crew members to your aid in this unique take on the survivors-like formula.
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Path of Exile
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
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!
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Brotato
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Cookie Invaders
Single-player alternative to Striving for Light: Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light: Survival.
Cookie Invaders is a roguelite shoot 'em up where you utilise a massive skill tree to evolve your ship to defend the earth from legions of invading cookies.