Single-player games like Salt and Sanctuary
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Salt and Sanctuary, 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 Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
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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ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.
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Salt and Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Salt and Sanctuary.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
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DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Salt and Sanctuary.
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin brings the franchise’s renowned obscurity & gripping gameplay to a new level. Join the dark journey and experience overwhelming enemy encounters, diabolical hazards, and unrelenting challenge.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
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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GRIME
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
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Blade of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Salt and Sanctuary.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
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Vigil: The Longest Night
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
Embark on a journey through the longest night with Leila, a valiant member of the Vigilant Order. Delve into the hidden truths shrouded in eternal darkness, unravel the mystery surrounding Leila's enigmatic sister, and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in a world that has lost the light of day.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
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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Nioh: Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Salt and Sanctuary.
Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks.
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The Surge
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Salt and Sanctuary.
Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Dark Devotion
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
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Charlie Murder
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
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The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
The followup to 2009's Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile is a combo-fueled, fast-paced, stylistic 2D action platformer that features the series' staple gritty, graphic novel-inspired art style, built on a new engine that allows for an even more visually gruesome experience.
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Single-player alternative to Salt and Sanctuary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt and Sanctuary.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!