Single-player games like Chasm
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Chasm, 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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Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
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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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
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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Abyss Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
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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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Chasm.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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My Friend Pedro
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
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The Messenger
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
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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NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
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Guns of Fury
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Chasm.
Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!
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Mega Man X Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Chasm.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
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Phantom Brave PC
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Chasm.
In the world of Ivoire lives Marona, an orphan with the ability to speak with phantoms. Though shunned by society, she believes in helping others. With her phantom companion Ash, Marona aims to purchase the mysterious Phantom Isle.
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Knytt Classic
Single-player alternative to Chasm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chasm.
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the indie freeware classic, rebuilt for modern machines! Explore a maze-like planet as the Knytt, a peaceful being abducted by aliens, find your missing ship parts, and get back home in this zen-like atmospheric platformer.