Single-player games like Hyper Light Drifter
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Hyper Light Drifter, 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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Rain World
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
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Wizard of Legend
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Katana ZERO
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hyper Light Drifter.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
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Death's Door
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
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UNSIGHTED
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
EXPLORE YOUR WAY. Awoken to a world ruined by war, Alma must traverse the vast city of Arcadia before the life force of her friends and herself withers away. Time is ticking, and every moment matters. Who will you save, and who will you leave to turn UNSIGHTED?
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Furi
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hyper Light Drifter.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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The Messenger
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
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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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
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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Castle in the Sands
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Castle in the Sands is a pixel art visual novel set in a world inspired by "One Thousand and One Nights" and North African culture. The adventure begins in the heart of the desert and leads you to fairytale places full of magic and danger.
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Hyper Light Breaker
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
A brand-new entry in the Hyper Light franchise, Hyper Light Breaker is an open world rogue-like with a unique world fully realized in 3D for the first time.
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Solar Ash
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hyper Light Drifter.
From the creators of the award-winning Hyper Light Drifter comes the high-speed and gravity-bending world of Solar Ash.
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Possessor(s)
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hyper Light Drifter.
Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration.