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Single-player games like Samurai Kento

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Samurai Kento, 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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    Death's Gambit: Afterlife — Steam game cover

    Death's Gambit: Afterlife

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Timespinner — Steam game cover

    Timespinner

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU — Steam game cover

    Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Primal Planet — Steam game cover

    Primal Planet

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Chasm — Steam game cover

    Chasm

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Momodora: Moonlit Farewell — Steam game cover

    Momodora: Moonlit Farewell

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    "Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Worldless — Steam game cover

    Worldless

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Samurai Kento.

    Worldless is a stylised 2D platformer with a unique combat system and a mind-bending interpretative narrative. Players embark on a journey of self-growth and understanding, pushing the limits of their nature in a newly born and abstract universe.

    2023ActionStrategyAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kotama and Academy Citadel — Steam game cover

    Kotama and Academy Citadel

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    In the Academy Citadel, strength reigns supreme: only the most powerful survive and thrive. Fight your way through the high-tech Academy in your quest to get the highest of honors for a student, and uncover secrets that can save it in its direst crisis in this 2.5D side-scrolling Metroidvania.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sokoban Land DX — Steam game cover

    Sokoban Land DX

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Samurai Kento.

    A 2D top-down Puzzle/Sokoban game that can be played in single-player (controlling one or two characters at same time) or with a friend in local co-op mode.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual0.79 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    WILOO — Steam game cover

    WILOO

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Samurai Kento.

    Help Wiloo to rescue his buddy in this 2D old-school platformer with colorful graphics and heartwarming soundtrack.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual0.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Milo's Quest — Steam game cover

    Milo's Quest

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    A mini zelda-like 2D top-down puzzle/adventure game about a dog, bones and a lot of ghosts!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Barry the Bunny — Steam game cover

    Barry the Bunny

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    A 2D platformer with short challenging levels about a bunny who builds bridges.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mina & Michi — Steam game cover

    Mina & Michi

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    A 2D top-down puzzle/adventure game about friendship featuring 2 players local co-op.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prehistoric Dude — Steam game cover

    Prehistoric Dude

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    A retro style mini metroidvania game about a caveman who loves ham!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super Wiloo Demake — Steam game cover

    Super Wiloo Demake

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    A 2D platformer featuring colorful 8-bit style graphics and 5 different worlds! It's a Demake version of "WILOO", featuring Completely new graphics, new Power-ups and other improvements.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mages and Treasures — Steam game cover

    Mages and Treasures

    Single-player alternative to Samurai Kento — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Samurai Kento.

    A 2D top-down adventure game about Powerful Mages, treasures, amulets and a lot of magical evilish creatures!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →