Single-player games like Bard's Gold
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Bard's Gold, 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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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
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Flinthook
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
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Just Get Through
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Just Get Through is a randomly generated platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring a destructible environment, sandbox mode, user-created levels, various gamemodes, hardcore mode, color palettes, deadly traps, explosions and more.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Skul: The Hero Slayer
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
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Caveblazers
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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ScourgeBringer
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bard's Gold.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Akinofa
Single-player alternative to Bard's Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Akinofa is an arcade shoot 'em up with Roguelite elements.