Single-player games like .Rise // Access
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to .Rise // Access, 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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Fornani
Single-player alternative to .Rise // Access — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with .Rise // Access.
Explore an ancient island that drifts amongst the raging clouds of a gas giant. Collect various guns and items, solve puzzles, and shoot any thugs or monsters that get in your way. Meet the locals and aid them in their quest to take down Skycorps while they aid you with yours: finding your brother.
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Goldstained
Single-player alternative to .Rise // Access — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with .Rise // Access.
Explore a dangerous, fantastical world and slay the divine being that corrupted it. Goldstained is a top-down 2D action-adventure where unlocking new weapons with new movesets is your way forward through boss fights, puzzles, and combat!
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XGA SPECIAL EDITION
Single-player alternative to .Rise // Access — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with .Rise // Access.
Survive the nightmare of XGA! Trapped in the rotting corpse of a space station, you must explore, fight and hide in this intense Horror-Metroidvania! But remember, XGA is hunting you....
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Orbital Patrol: The Lani Goodspeed Story
Single-player alternative to .Rise // Access — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with .Rise // Access.
Jet fighter metroidvania. Implementation of planetary and space battles in 2D side-scrolling shooter mechanics. Story from the perspective of Lieutenant Lani Goodspeed on humanity's struggle against an alien invader.
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The Red Selene
Single-player alternative to .Rise // Access — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with .Rise // Access.
Sci-fi Horror now comes to Metroidvania, Creating The Horrovania, Begin your most disturbing adventure to the colony of EC-21 JANUS, KILL, LOOT, AND SURVIVE, and Immerse yourself in the huge open-world hand-drawn environments with massive details.
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Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior
Single-player alternative to .Rise // Access — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with .Rise // Access.
A brutal action game set in a collapsing sci-fi nightmare. Battle biomechanical mutants, traverse shifting landscapes, and uncover fragments of your lost mind as you descend into a twisted post-apocalyptic world.
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Echoes From The Soul
Single-player alternative to .Rise // Access — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with .Rise // Access.
"Let the fragments reverberate within your being. Let the echoes from your soul vibrate within every living bodycell. Now, my child, you're whole again. Be it a good or a bad thing, we'll leave for you to choose."
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Marras
Single-player alternative to .Rise // Access — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with .Rise // Access.
MARRAS is a vertical bullet-hell shoot ’em up. Industrial sci-fi style, thick patterns, a Campaign of short handcrafted stages you can retry in pieces, and a five-stage Arcade run built for score. Soundtrack by Exemia.