Single-player games like Guacamelee! 2
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Guacamelee! 2, 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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Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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Abyss Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
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Guacamelee! Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
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Unruly Heroes
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
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Castle Crashers®
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
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You are Peter Shorts
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
You are PETER SHORTS! You have been captured and taken to a secret cloning facility. Can you escape with your newly-cloned brethren?
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Shing!
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
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Wulverblade
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Defeat the Ninth Legion of the Roman army in this side-scrolling, arcade-inspired beat 'em up set in Roman-era Britain.
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SteamWorld Dig
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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SteamWorld Dig 2
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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Nobody Saves the World
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Transform from a featureless nobody into a SLUG, a GHOST and a DRAGON in this new take on Action RPGs from the creators of Guacamelee! Discover 15+ distinct Forms, mix-and-match their abilities, clear evolving dungeons and... SAVE THE WORLD!?
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Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
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Blighted
Single-player alternative to Guacamelee! 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Battle through a psychedelic Western nightmare in this Metroidvania action RPG from the creators of Guacamelee! and Nobody Saves the World.