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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!