Single-player games like The Waste Land
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Waste Land, 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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Super Dangerous Dungeons
Single-player alternative to The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Guide Timmy the treasure hunter through dangerous dungeons in search of the legendary treasure!
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Terrian Saga: KR-17
Single-player alternative to The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
KR-17 is a 32-bit, story-driven, side-scrolling action puzzle-platformer which follows the story of a military robot on a mission to subdue a rogue agent operating out of an installation on the planet Valiant. It will be the first in a multi-genre series of games centered around the story of Terrius, KR-17's home.
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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
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 The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
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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Battle Princess Madelyn
Single-player alternative to The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Battle Princess Madelyn is a game that follows the journey of a young knight in training, Madelyn, and her ghostly pet dog, Fritzy. Join them as they set out on a journey to save her kingdom and her family from the clutches of an evil wizard!
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Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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Owlboy
Single-player alternative to The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
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Vampire Hunters
Single-player alternative to The Waste Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Waste Land.
To hunt vampires, you'll need guns. Lots of guns. Mow down hordes of undead creatures by stacking your guns into absurd, over-the-top builds. Unleash your firepower and survive the mayhem in this Roguelite Survivors FPS.