Single-player games like The Knowledge of Hermit
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Knowledge of Hermit, 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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Ancient Adventure
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Evil has taken over the world. Equip your Weapon of Choice and venture forth. Journey out into the world to avenge your predecessors. Survive the hordes of monsters, seek out to extinguish the source of all Evil, so that one day, your people may finally live in peace.
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Draco and the Seven Scales
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Set sail on a voyage full of pirates, dark magic, and the thrill of discovery! Draco and the Seven Scales is a retro-inspired adventure that harkens back to an age of top down dungeon crawlers and lovable, crunchy pixel art.
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Buffet Knight - Decadent Full Course
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Eat everything. Grow stronger. Save the Gourmet Kingdom. A charming action-adventure where you devour foes, solve clever dungeon puzzles, and battle monstrous bosses in a whimsical, food-filled world. Find the five Divine Spices and save the Gourmet Kingdom from the Demon Chef!
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Void Sols
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
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Death's Door
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
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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Hack and Slime
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.
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TUNIC
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
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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Minecraft Dungeons
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Fight your way through an exciting action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe!
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First Odium
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Knowledge of Hermit.
A psychological Turn Based Combat RPG Dungeon Crawling Horror
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Crazy Brain
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Use perceptive skills and cognition to attempt to gather points, collect an accumulated a score and attempt to exit the stage without failing.
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Happy Mask
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Knowledge of Hermit.
This is what it feels like to be enslaved by your own mind. Toxic happiness and the brutal reality of a world that cannot be argued away. Step into the backward flipside of a perspective of being mocked and rediculed by blind observers that subscribe to the way of the mob.
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TVS Sample Box
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An evolving app with random surprising updates.
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Drone Break
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Run and Gun Roguelite where the goal is to upgrade each consecutive alien drone on death so the next can strive to become overpowered enough to escape the all consuming hive mind.
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Dissociative
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Enter this dark fantasy nightmare adventure game. Spanning a vast unpredictable mindscape of over 2000 unique areas. Answer perplexing questions, gain abilities, power ups and transfer between dark and light worlds in this seemingly endless dreamscape.
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Lober Lobe
Single-player alternative to The Knowledge of Hermit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Knowledge of Hermit.
Shoot psychic orbs, collect useful thoughts, upgrade your Probe with speed, maneuverability, satellites, resistance and suppress negative thoughts in this Brain centric, procedurally generated bullet hell shoot 'em up.