Single-player games like Dead Cells
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Cells, 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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Nightmare: The Lunatic
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Nightmare: The Lunatic is a parrying action rogue-lite platformer game about escaping a nightmare. Constantly swap between 3 weapons, use special attacks, and avoid and parry enemy attacks. Strengthen yourself by collecting powerful and unique totems.
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Skul: The Hero Slayer
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
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Windblown
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Dash, dive and defy the Vortex. A lightning-fast, 1-3 player co-op roguelite from the crafters of Dead Cells, where every run is a leap into chaos. Absorb the powers of fallen warriors, rebuild their weapons, and WIPE THE FLOOR with anything that gets in the way of a perfect run.
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ScourgeBringer
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
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Aura of Worlds
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Aura of Worlds is a chaotic, creative tactics rogue-lite platformer. Explore multiple dangerous worlds where you utilize creative abilities & wield the environment to your advantage. Blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths & outwit powerful guardians!
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
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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Katanaut
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.
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Xenon Valkyrie
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Xenon Valkyrie is a rogue-like with many RPG elements in which you will have to get to the deepest part of a moon and finish the plans of a wicked witch. You will be able to get many weapons randomly as you fight in a world that is created every time you play.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Transistor
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.
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Bastion
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
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Hyper Light Drifter
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Dead Cells — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Cells.
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.