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Single-player games like Relic Light

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Relic 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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    InOut — Steam game cover

    InOut

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relic Light.

    A minimalist puzzle platformer where each level is more than they seem. Change your perspective on levels to discover new areas. Explore the world to unearth its hidden secrets.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XGA SPECIAL EDITION — Steam game cover

    XGA SPECIAL EDITION

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Relic Light.

    Survive the nightmare of XGA! Trapped in the rotting corpse of a space station, you must explore, fight and hide in this intense Horror-Metroidvania!  But remember, XGA is hunting you....

    2027ActionAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Undying Elf — Steam game cover

    Undying Elf

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relic Light.

    A Metroidvania 2D platformer focused on exploration, puzzles and collection, with creative puzzles and well-designed maps.

    2026IndieAdventureCasual7.19 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Amalu, Wells between worlds — Steam game cover

    Amalu, Wells between worlds

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relic Light.

    Amalu: Wells Between Worlds is a pixel-art 2D platformer, and Metroidvania blending Atmospheric exploration, Spell-casting puzzle mechanics, Amazigh/North African mythology and an emotional storytelling

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Plungeez — Steam game cover

    Plungeez

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relic Light.

    Explore a non-linear underground world in this puzzle-adventure. Solve intricate environmental challenges, uncover hidden secrets, and navigate a pixel-art labyrinth where every path leads to a new mystery. Can you plunge into the depths and find what lies beneath?

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TWINSTAR 双星 — Steam game cover

    TWINSTAR 双星

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relic Light.

    A sci-fi fantasy Metroidvania where you play as a vampire adrift in space. Awaken in a strange space lab, explore the station, solve puzzles, defeat enemies, find hidden rooms, collect odd items, awaken lost powers, and uncover a secret buried deep within.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Frog Fall — Steam game cover

    Frog Fall

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relic Light.

    Eskweenkleh Brahvoh, I made you to escape this labyrinthine prison. Forget their gravity; you bring your own. Embrace confusion; leap over the impossible, roll on, and, kohn ehl fahbohr dehdyohs, bounce high enough to charm the world’s corpse.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Soulchain — Steam game cover

    Soulchain

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Relic Light.

    Use your soul as a grappling hook in this tight, non-linear, physics-based platformer. Swing through hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, explore a vast world inspired by classic metroidvanias, and find your place within the seasons of the Afterlife.

    IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aliya: Timelink — Steam game cover

    Aliya: Timelink

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relic Light.

    The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.

    2024IndieRPG2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pop Party — Steam game cover

    Pop Party

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relic Light.

    Pop Party is a multiplayer party party game. Players play as critters using their bodies and basketballs to try and knock players from other teams out of the field and emerge victorious in a variety of game modes!

    IndieRPGCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sin Hunter — Steam game cover

    Sin Hunter

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Relic Light.

    Sin Hunter is a two-dimensional fantasy style Rougelike card-building combat game. Players take on the role of a sin hunter who helps the demon managers in Hell suppress the rebellion of the Primordial Abyss and uncover the secrets of Hell's origins.

    StrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aliya: Timelink2 Dawn — Steam game cover

    Aliya: Timelink2 Dawn

    Single-player alternative to Relic Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Relic Light.

    A truth spanning time—connect with Aliya and meet diverse characters from 1,000 years later. In this real-time synchronized adventure, help her escape the Courtyard and team up to uncover the massive corporation’s hidden secrets...

    2026AdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →