Single-player games like Cryogear
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Cryogear, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Cryogear page.
Ranked picks
- 1

Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
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.
- 2

Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
- 3

Trinity Fusion
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
- 4

Vigil: The Longest Night
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
Embark on a journey through the longest night with Leila, a valiant member of the Vigilant Order. Delve into the hidden truths shrouded in eternal darkness, unravel the mystery surrounding Leila's enigmatic sister, and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in a world that has lost the light of day.
- 5

Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
This is an anime-style Metroidvania game with an RPG progression system, numerous weapons for switching, and an emphasis on equipment building. It offers three switchable characters, smooth gameplay, impactful combat feedback, and anime-style story scenes.
- 6

HunterX
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles. Use various styles of weapons and magic to experience your own fighting style and explore a great world.
- 7

GRIME
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
- 8

Deepening Fire
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
Deepening Fire is a side-scrolling action adventure game. Choose different classes, with appropriate equipment, explore hidden complex map, defeat powerful enemies, expose the conspiracy of the chaotic world, experience the souls-like battle
- 9

Sky Mercenaries
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
Sky Mercenaries - Fast paced action overdose with rpg elements
- 10

Steel Rain
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
It's the ultimate, strategic SHMUP ReMix! Control TWO combat wings, flick between THREE different formations, and BLAST your way through overwhelming enemy fleets! Liberate planets, build colonies, research tech and skills, craft items, or even play 2p co-op in this unique new indie game.
- 11

ARK BOX Unlimited
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
Create, share and download unlimited new Stages for this new arcade remix with integrated Stage editor!
- 12

Cyber Complex
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
Cyber Complex is a unique mix of Action, Strategy and Arcade elements in a 60s-style Sci-Fi setting.
- 13

GINSHA
Single-player alternative to Cryogear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cryogear.
GINSHA is a unique atmospheric pixelart Action Adventure Platformer with special Gravity Shield and Dash Mechanics. It combines a versatile Platformer core with RPG, Souls and Crafting Elements to an Anomaly among Metroidvania games.