Single-player games like Exanima
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Exanima, 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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Renova
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
Renova is a topdown, open world ARPG with real-time combat and exploration elements. The game features a large sandbox, a number of unique dungeons and an interactive environment system.
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Ashikai
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
A dark fantasy isometric action RPG where a samurai fights through deadly dungeons to find his lord and make his way back to his family in a yokai-cursed feudal Japan.
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Spark in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
The hardcore dark fantasy Dungeon Crawler where you will go to the endless depths of a mysterious grim Dungeon.
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Path of Exile 2
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Exanima.
Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.
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Grimlord
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
Grimlord is a Dark Fantasy Action Souls-like RPG - on VR. Awakened in a monastery deep in the Lonely Mountains, you walk in an epic quest as the adventurer standing before the darkness and striving for the light against the tyrannical Grim Lord.
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Death's Door
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
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Sands of Aura
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
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Immortal Planet
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
Immortal Planet is an action RPG with challenging combat that rewards patience and punishes recklessness. Explore the crumbling remains of a society of immortals trapped in endless cycles of rebirth. Fight your way to discover the planet's mystery and escape its curse.
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Half Sword
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
Half Sword is a physics-based medieval combat simulator featuring historically accurate XV-century arms and armor. We are not afraid to show the brutal nature of medieval combat with in-depth blood and gore features.
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Arx Fatalis
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Exanima.
This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
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Baldur's Gate 3
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Exanima.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
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ELDEN RING
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Exanima.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
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Wigmund
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Exanima.
Defeat the evil Antiochus as you fight his malefic servants in this open-world fantasy action RPG with a unique, real-time combat game-play. Crafting, fishing, hunting, cooking, talents, professions and many other things are at hand.