Single-player games like Alwa's Awakening
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Alwa's Awakening, 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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Alwa's Legacy
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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OUTBUDDIES DX
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
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Chasm
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
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Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
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Cathedral
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
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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Mini Ghost
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
"Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.
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Astalon: Tears of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
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Metroidvania Maker
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
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A Void Hope
Single-player alternative to Alwa's Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alwa's Awakening.
A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.