Single-player games like Rift Walker
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Rift Walker, 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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Kuzo
Single-player alternative to Rift Walker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Walker.
Explore an overgrown landscape of magic as you create your own platforms and shape your path through the world. Discover the history of a forgotten planet, collect relics to awaken your abilities, and create the very terrain you traverse.
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Soulchain
Single-player alternative to Rift Walker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Walker.
Use your soul as a grappling hook in this tight, non-linear, physics-based platformer. Swing through hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, explore a vast world inspired by classic metroidvanias, and find your place within the seasons of the Afterlife.
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Augment Anthem
Single-player alternative to Rift Walker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Walker.
Combine four Augment types to transform your gun, movement, and traversal in a 2D sci-fi metroidvania. Explore interconnected environments from flooded ruins to abandoned bunkers, fight biomechanical threats, and rebuild the last human settlement.
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Crown Of Silence
Single-player alternative to Rift Walker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Walker.
Crown Of Silence is a 2D Metroidvania adventure with Souls-like mechanics set in a gothic world. Forge your own combat style with diverse equipment, challenge ruthless bosses, and uncover the dark secrets of a silenced kingdom through environmental storytelling.
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Goodbye Seoul
Single-player alternative to Rift Walker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Walker.
Six months before the asteroid strike, and a new beginning. Goodbye Seoul is a narrative puzzle adventure set in a desolate yet hauntingly beautiful post-apocalyptic Seoul. Will you uncover the truth before time runs out?
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Rain World
Single-player alternative to Rift Walker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Walker.
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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Vesper: Zero Light Edition
Single-player alternative to Rift Walker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Walker.
Thousands of years after the activation of the Vesper Protocol, a small android crosses a fallen world, hunted by merciless machines, to control the power of Light and decide the fate of his race.
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Haiku, the Robot
Single-player alternative to Rift Walker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Walker.
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.