Single-player games like Fading Light
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Fading Light, 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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Neither Day nor Night
Single-player alternative to Fading Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Light.
Neither Day nor Night is a challenging, precision platformer. The Adventure of a girl trying to find her younger sister in a mysterious and bloody world. Use your skills to avoid obstacles, enemies, traps. Make your way through by thinking and doing - exactly in that order!
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Fading Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Light.
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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Watcher Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Fading Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Light.
Become a glutton for punishment and persevere, alone or with a friend, against 20+ merciless bosses and legions of skeletal nightmares in this savage yet charming 2D souls-like.
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Infernal Radiation
Single-player alternative to Fading Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Light.
Smash demons and deflect bullets in a hardcore arcade clicker with the RPG elements.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Fading Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Light.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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The Last Faith
Single-player alternative to Fading Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Light.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Fading Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Light.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to Fading Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Light.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.