Single-player games like BLACK SOULS
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to BLACK SOULS, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like BLACK SOULS page.
Ranked picks
- 1

BLACK SOULS II
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Despair. Fear, Madness, once again. An original work based on "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." Dark Fairy Tale Fantasy x Psychological Horror RPG focusing on the themes of "Exploration of a Mad World" and "Life or Death Combat against Demonbeasts".
- 2

Cradle of Nightmare : Flowers to you
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
Cradle of Nightmare: Flowers to You is an adventure game featuring a turn-based ATB system. Step into the shoes of Yue Qing, an ordinary high schooler thrust into a world of darkness as an otherworldly force tears reality asunder. Navigate a ruined world and end the filth festering within humanity.
- 3

WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
- 4

Lords of the Fallen
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
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.
- 5

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.
- 6

Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Embark upon a vast, snow-ravaged kingdom in Tails of Iron 2, sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG. As Arlo, heir to the Warden of the Wastes, adventure through harsh northern lands, home to giant beasts and ragtag bandits, in an epic quest to overcome an ancient, blood-starved evil.
- 7

Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
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.
- 8

Dark Devotion
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
- 9

Fear & Hunger
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
- 10

LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
- 11

Pathologic 2
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
- 12

DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
- 13

Starfield
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with BLACK SOULS.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
- 14

Felvidek
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
In Felvidek, a JRPG set in 15th century Slovakia, you embrace the role of an alcoholic knight Pavol. Meet diverse and interesting characters to help you drive out the Hussites and Ottomans who blight this land.
- 15

Demons Roots
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
In a final struggle for survival, demonkind again invaded the human world. However, the world they return to after years in the darkness isn't the same as it once was...