Single-player games like Gloom
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Gloom, 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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Foregone
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
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In Celebration of Violence
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
A fantasy action roguelike of exploration and murder. Live, kill, die, improve, live again.
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Lovecraft's Untold Stories
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.
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Dark Devotion
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
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Fallback
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
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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Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
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.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
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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Hollow Knight
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
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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The King In Yellow - Escape Room
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gloom.
You have been sent to investigate a spaceship whose members have inexplicably disappeared and there is a strange symbol everywhere. In this escape room you will have to solve puzzles as you get closer to the truth behind the mystery.
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The Treehouse Man
Single-player alternative to Gloom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gloom.
A horrible corruption has forced the children of the forest into hiding. They confide in the Treehouse Man, but their prayers remain unanswered. Baptized into the group, you must take the hallowed boat on an odyssey to save your brothers and sisters before the silence kills them.