Single-player games like Spelunky
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Spelunky, 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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Spelunky 2
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Caveblazers
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Vagante
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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.
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Downwell
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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Legend of Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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The Swindle
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
The Swindle is a steampunk cybercrime caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing all their cash, and quickly running away again before the police show up.
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SteamWorld Dig
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
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Rogue Knight
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Experience fast-paced roguelite gameplay. Explore ever-changing locations and fight vicious enemies in souls-inspired 2d combat. Every run you will find variety of items and spells to compliment your playstyle, as well as resources to upgrade your town for future runs.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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Moonlighter
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.
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TowerClimb
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
TowerClimb is a difficult and rewarding procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. Enormous and mysterious towers of ancient unknown origin stand above humanity, extending to the heavens. Struggle forward as a weak human, driven by an iron will to reach the top.
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UFO 50
Single-player alternative to Spelunky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.