Single-player games like Cavern Kings
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Cavern Kings, 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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Vagante
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.
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Catacomb Kids
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Black Future '88
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cavern Kings.
Black Future ’88 is a Synth-Punk roguelike 2D action Shooter. Vertically climb an always evolving procedural tower to reach the top and kill its insane owner…before your heart explodes. Shoot, slash, dash and upgrade yourself to survive the endless waves of Homicidal AI, Traps & Colossal Wardens.
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A Robot Named Fight!
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Astral Ascent
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
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Wizard of Legend
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
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Super Crate Box
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can.
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Downwell
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Cavern Kings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavern Kings.
Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other!