Single-player games like Elliot Quest
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Elliot Quest, 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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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elliot Quest.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elliot Quest.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Alwa's Awakening
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elliot Quest.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
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Apotheon
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elliot Quest.
Apotheon is a heroic action game set within the vibrant world of Ancient Greek Mythology. Ascend Mount Olympus, wrestle the divine powers from the Pantheon of Gods, and save mankind.
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Cathedral
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elliot Quest.
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
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KUNAI
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elliot Quest.
KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.
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Astalon: Tears of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Elliot Quest.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
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ANIMAL WELL
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elliot Quest.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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Castle of Vania
Single-player alternative to Elliot Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Elliot Quest.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.