Single-player games like Salene
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Salene, 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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PorBor
Single-player alternative to Salene — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Salene.
PorBor is a metroidvania set in a mutated civilization. Slash through enemies to form a collectable substance, forcing you to engage with close and quick combat. Explore this varied overgrown world as Bor to learn about the mind of a god...
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Celestial Lumina
Single-player alternative to Salene — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Salene.
Celestial Lumina is a 2D Pixel-Art Metroidvania where Light clashes with the corrupted Darkness threatening to overtake the world. Ascend from the depths as Evan, heir of a fallen underworld, to awaken the radiant abilities within you & uncover the truth behind a world stripped of dawn.
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Set In Stone
Single-player alternative to Salene — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Salene.
A 2D platformer metroidvania. Discover a strange place where everyone was turned into a tiny stone. Fight difficult bosses, explore an interconnected world, and piece together the chaotic history of people who suddenly lost their humanity (or not?).
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BIOMORPH
Single-player alternative to Salene — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Salene.
BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.
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DOOMBLADE
Single-player alternative to Salene — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Salene.
Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains. Together, “Doom and Gloom” embark on a vengeful quest to unlock the powerful abilities and destroy the Dread Lords once and for all in this 2D Action Metroidvania.
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Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists
Single-player alternative to Salene — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Salene.
This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences. To achieve it, Xandria fights with a powerful whip and the power of chemical elements. Find out more about her in this modern metroidvania adventure.
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Babushka's Glitch Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Salene — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Salene.
Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
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Quarion
Single-player alternative to Salene — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Salene.
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets. Inspired by games such as You Have to Win the Game and VVVVVV.