Single-player games like The Buried Pillars
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Buried Pillars, 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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DEVIATOR
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals. Exploring unknown wilderness and mysterious cities, delving into enigmatic realms of consciousness and encountering peculiar creatures. Try to find the truth behind this chaotic world.
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Crypt Custodian
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Buried Pillars.
Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.
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Solateria
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
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GRIME II
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
Become the stealer of forms in GRIME II, a surreal action-adventure metroidvania. Launch tendrils made of hands to absorb foes and summon molds in their shape, as you explore a bizarre lived-in-world obsessed with art.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Tombwater
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
A Souls-Like Western full of Eldritch horrors. Explore the accursed Wild West town of Tombwater and lay bare the darkness that lies beneath. Survive blood-spilling combat in this gruesome 2D action-RPG that may just drive you to madness.
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Void Sols
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
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Hidden Realm of the Enchantress
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buried Pillars.
Explore the dungeon and fight against various monster girls! A turn-based strategic dungeon crawler RPG that challenge your skills and endurance
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Nine Sols
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Pillars.
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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Running on Empty
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buried Pillars.
Running on Empty is a minimal yet deep post-apocalyptic role-playing game with resource management mechanics (in 64x64 retro pixel graphics!)
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BeadsPopper
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Buried Pillars.
BeadsPopper is a casual tile-matching puzzle game with a simple RPG element. Battle against adorable monster girls by popping colorful beads!
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Charm Commerce
Single-player alternative to The Buried Pillars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Buried Pillars.
Run a business with adorable monster girls using power of desire! Employ girls, build your workplace and grow your business in the magical world. Unleash the charm of your team and watch your business thrive!