Single-player games like Crypt Stalker
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Crypt Stalker, 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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Frogun
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
Join Renata as she adventures across a world of mystical ruins with the titular FROGUN! Frogun is an old-school platformer with the soul of the PS1/N64 era, in which your frog-shaped grappling hook is a your best friend!
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Freedom Planet
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.
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Alwa's Legacy
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
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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Aeon Drive
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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Iconoclasts
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
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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Owlboy
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
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CrossCode
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.
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Project Vic
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
As a freelance journalist, you receive a tip-off from a policeman friend about a death. You immediately make your way to the scene to get a first-hand impression of the case. But shortly after you arrive, you realize that things are not quite right here...
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Contrast
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypt Stalker.
CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.
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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crypt Stalker.
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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Castle of Vania
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crypt Stalker.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
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Alien Splatter Redux
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
"BLAH BLAH BLAH 8-bit, BLAH BLAH BLAH, blow stuff up. BLAH BLAH BLAH, retro." BLOWING INTO THE CARTRIDGE NOT REQUIRED!
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Jet Gunner
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
Jet Gunner is a 2D platform action indie game that's full of Nestalgia. Full of action, gunfights, bosses and explosions so if you're into the whole 8-Bit vibe you should love this. From the sound, to the graphics to the flicker, this should pay tribute to those classic hard as nails, run 'n' gun games.
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I Want To Be Human
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
A vampire girl, a hat boy and an adventure packed with tonnes of exploding body parts – go on a bloodthirsty rampage of death and destruction in a quest to become human again!
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Fist Slash: Of Ultimate Fury
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
Part man, part blade, all badass – help Fist Slash defeat the evil Dr. X and recover the mystical mirror shards before they're used to wreak ultimate destruction on the world!
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Jet Gunner: Refueled
Single-player alternative to Crypt Stalker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crypt Stalker.
Jet Gunner is reloaded, remade and refueled for a new explosive 8-bit adventure. Relive the past glory days where VHS was king, phones didn't have screens and you'd have to blow into a cartridge to get your gaming fix.