Single-player games like Shiny Gauntlet
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Shiny Gauntlet, 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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Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Paddle your balls! The hypergalaxy's premiere video table tennis role playing experience. Explore the hypergalaxies in the year 3000 or so to become the ultimate paddle champion. Learn new skills, cast devastating spells and put someone's underwear on your head whist riding a swamp beast!
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Raindancer
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Awoken from death by The Rain itself, Bramble is tasked with bringing an end to the leaders of three rival tribes, and purifying their corruption against nature.
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樱雪集～Yuyuko's Butterfly Dream
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Yuyuko,A ghost princess who has been dead for thousands of years, she has superpowers to induce death. In a doze, she is lured to a mysterious place full of the breath of the underworld and creation. And around the dead butterflies, recall a thousand years ago story...
- 4
Mahluk:Dark Demon
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Mahluk is a hack and slash platformer game with pixel-art style graphics and retro style addicting gameplay.
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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Carve your path in this Hack’n’Slash free from class boundaries. Purify a world shattered by corruption, and uncover the grim secrets and forgotten horrors lurking in the shadows of this forsaken land as you rise in Power. Your Inner aspect beckons—will you answer?
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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Hammerwatch
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Play solo or co-op in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique environments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Questlike
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Questlike is a Lo-fi take on the classic dungeon rpg formula. Band your Party together and test your mettle against Endless Challenges.
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Grimm & Tonic: Aperitif
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shiny Gauntlet.
Maintaining a healthy Work-Life balance is pretty tricky on a good day but it’s damn near impossible when your boss threatens foreclosure on your mortal existence. As the new bartender at DEAD-END, you’ll make new friends, mix weird drinks, all while navigating Life, Death and everything in between.
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Duppy Detective Tashia
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shiny Gauntlet.
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
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On the Peril of Parrots
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shiny Gauntlet.
Take control of P.O.L.L.I - the Procedural Operating Layered Linguistic Intelligence - and put your skills to the test with 100+ challenging puzzles! Unravel a mysterious experiment overseen by the brilliant "Scientist", their trusted "Assistant", and the shady "Stakeholder".
- 13
Sunken Stones
Single-player alternative to Shiny Gauntlet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Shiny Gauntlet.
A turn based Puzzle-Strategy game about pirates and cursed treasure. Choose a captain, gather your crew and defeat monsters by strategically placing units on a 5x5 grid.