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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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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FORCED: Slightly Better Edition
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
FORCED is a challenging 1-4-player game with co-op at its heart! A mix of tactical arcade action, RPG elements and puzzles will forge you and your friends together. As slaves in the toughest gladiator school of them all, you will face a plethora of unique trials - designed to be your death!
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INTO EVIL
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Hotline Miami x Dark Souls. Greatswords, demons, miniguns; up to 4 players. You are not prepared.
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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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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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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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Hammerwatch
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Play solo or co-op in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique environments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.
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No Place for Bravery
Single-player alternative to Hyper Light Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hyper Light Drifter.
Thorn, an old warrior worn down by decades of vim and violence, roams a world undone in search of his lost daughter. Dodge, parry & cleave your way out of brutal clashes in this 2D top-down action RPG, and discover the bone-chilling tale of Thorn's crusade to make his family whole again.
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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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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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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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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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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.