Single-player games like Eldritch
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Eldritch, 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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Ziggurat
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eldritch.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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Lovecraft's Untold Stories
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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Delver
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.
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Tower of Guns
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
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WORLD OF HORROR
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Eldritch.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
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Magicraft
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
"Magicraft" is a Roguelike game that uses a variety of spells to match unimaginable spell effects, and the construction of ultra-high degrees of freedom cannot even be exhausted by developers.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldritch.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Thief
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldritch.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
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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Project Dark
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eldritch.
Project Dark is an episodic, narrative-driven audio game that uses binaural sound and "choose your own adventure" style storytelling to immerse players in its varied worlds. Close your eyes, and see.
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Super Win the Game
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
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NEON STRUCT
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
You are Jillian Cleary: an ex-spy on the run, framed for treason and hunted by your former agency. You must move in secret, survive off the grid, and find a way to clear your name. Old friends and new allies will lend their support; but with the eyes of the world upon you, who can you trust?
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You Have to Win the Game
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
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Gunmetal Arcadia
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
War is coming. How will you serve?
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Slayer Shock
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
A role-playing shooter about hunting vampires in Nebraska. Take missions to patrol the streets, rescue captive humans, and weaken the undead threat. Assemble a team, hunt the vampires, and save your hometown!
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Gunmetal Arcadia Zero
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Eldritch.
Unrest brews in the city of Arcadia, and a monstrous enemy approaches.
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EPONYMOUS
Single-player alternative to Eldritch — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eldritch.
EPONYMOUS: In Which a Work Is Known by Its Reading is a short-form narrative about unreliable infrastructures.