Single-player games like Exanima
Below are 13 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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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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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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Lords of the Fallen
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Exanima.
A vast world awaits in the medieval, dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. As a fabled Dark Crusader, embark on an epic quest to overthrow Adyr, the demon God. The final major update Version 2.5 is out now: features deadlier boss battles and all-new Veteran Mode.
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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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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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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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Eldest Souls
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Exanima.
Fast-paced and brutally challenging, Eldest Souls is a unique Soulslike experience. In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind's only hope lies with a lone warrior… and his greatsword of pure Obsydian.
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Remnant: From the Ashes
Single-player alternative to Exanima — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Exanima.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
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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.