Single-player games like Demon Peak
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Demon Peak, 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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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
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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Cathedral
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
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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Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Demon Peak.
Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.
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Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Ghoulboy is a retro-inspired action platformer. Explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures and devious monsters.
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After Death
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
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Alwa's Awakening
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Demon Peak.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
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Metroidvania
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Demon Peak.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Demon Peak.
Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection brings together six classic titles in one game: Mega Man Zero 1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as Mega Man ZX and ZX Advent. The collection also features Z-Chaser, an exclusive new mode created just for this set of games.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
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NINJA GAIDEN 4
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Demon Peak.
The definitive ninja action-adventure franchise returns with NINJA GAIDEN 4! Embark on a cutting-edge adventure where legacy meets innovation in a high-octane blend of style and no-holds-barred combat.
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Castle of Vania
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Demon Peak.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Demon Peak.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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Ancestory
Single-player alternative to Demon Peak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Demon Peak.
Turn-based strategy meets card game! Outwit your opponent on multiple different battlefields with cunning strategies. Build your own decks made of underworldly minions and powerful spells!