Single-player games like Ultros
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Ultros, 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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Betrayer: Curse of the Spine
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ultros.
Betrayer: Curse of the Spine is an Action-Adventure Metroidvania. The game features decision making, crafting, fast-paced combat, multiple endings, intricate storytelling, an open world to explore, and more!
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Iron Diamond
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ultros.
Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!
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Plague Breaker
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ultros.
Plague Breaker is a retro roguelike platformer with heavy RPG elements. Pick your class and ascend a procedurally generated castle filled with undead monsters and corrupted plague doctors. Level up your character and find items, weapons, and traders along the way before taking on each floors boss.
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Phaze Shift
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ultros.
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift! A tag-team, action Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
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Goo Keeper
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ultros.
Lead Rolly in his adventure within the wonderful world of Shroomast, and explore its deep semi open-world underground. Goo Keeper is a pure metroidvania with tons of unique bosses, hand-crafted worlds and creatures, and tons of awesome abilities.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ultros.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Dark Devotion
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ultros.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
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Xenon Valkyrie
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ultros.
Xenon Valkyrie is a rogue-like with many RPG elements in which you will have to get to the deepest part of a moon and finish the plans of a wicked witch. You will be able to get many weapons randomly as you fight in a world that is created every time you play.
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The Messenger
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ultros.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
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The Kingdom of God
Single-player alternative to Ultros — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ultros.
The Kingdom of God: Creation is an independent game integrating territory management, resource management, strategic chess and exploration. As a new God, players develop their own country in the dangerous universe and eventually become the king of the new generation of gods.