Single-player games like GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike, 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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NIPH
Single-player alternative to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike.
NIPH is a stylish roguelite platformer with risky and intense combat. Slash, shoot, and learn and cast spells with more varied items as you explore a vast and diverse fantasy world!
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Castleborne Survivors
Single-player alternative to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike.
A survivors-like game with side-scrolling action combat. Slash, dodge, and mow down endless monsters in a gothic horror castle. Upgrade with every choice, snowball out of control, and survive until the very end.
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BSG: Big Space Guns
Single-player alternative to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike.
BSG: Big Space Guns is a coop bullet hell roguelike where you step on giant buttons to activate cannons while you dodge bullets.
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Lost Mind
Single-player alternative to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike.
Lost Mind is a psychological roguelite set inside Ashley’s fractured mind. Explore procedural worlds, collect stars, escape collapsing maps, and face symbolic enemies born from trauma, paranoia, and depression. Every death means she got lost again.
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Spelunky 2
Single-player alternative to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
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Dark Scrolls
Single-player alternative to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike.
Dark Scrolls is a fantasy-themed action platformer that fuses shmup-style chaos with roguelite progression and is packed with charm, challenge, and secrets.
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Caveblazers
Single-player alternative to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike.
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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30XX
Single-player alternative to GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GAARL! - Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.