Single-player games like Slain: Back from Hell
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Slain: Back from Hell, 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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Valfaris
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
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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Volgarr the Viking
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
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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Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
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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Hunt the Night
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
Hunt the Night is a retro-style action-RPG that blends fast, skillful combat with dark fantasy lore. Play as Vesper, a member of the Stalkers, and traverse the ruined world of Medhram on a mission to save humanity from a deadly cycle of annihilation.
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Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
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BUTCHER
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
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NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
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Castle of Vania
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slain: Back from Hell.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
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Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Single-player alternative to Slain: Back from Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slain: Back from Hell.
Therion returns as the hunt for Lord Vroll continues. Pilot an advanced machine of death and destruction in this explosive 2.5D side-scrolling shoot ‘em up, and sequel to the critically acclaimed Valfaris. Strap in and unleash mecha hell!