Single-player games like Enlightenment
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Enlightenment, 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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Soulblight
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Soulblight is a dark, unforgiving, top-down action roguelike luring you to cross the thin line between good and evil. Embrace your flaws to survive a journey through an unforgiving Sanctuary. Gluttony, Lust, Cannibalism - how far are you willing to go?
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Devil Slayer - Raksasi
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Devil Slayer - Raksasi is a top-down action game with procedurally generated dungeons, profound roguelike elements, and intuitive soul-like fighting. It's a fair and challenging game, dodging, timing, striking, you need to master them all to fight your way out of this cursed world.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Our Darker Purpose
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG!When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
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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Monstrum
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Enlightenment.
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
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Ravenswatch
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Enlightenment.
Fallen heroes of old folk tales and legends: you are on the verge of a crucial battle against the Nightmare invading and corrupting your world. A roguelike action game from the creators of Curse of the Dead Gods©, playable solo or in online co-op.
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Legend of Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Enlightenment.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
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The Red Solstice
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
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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Re-Loaded
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Enlightenment.
Introducing the roll call of shame as Mamma, Bounca, Butch, Cap'n Hands, Sister Magpie and The Consumer blast their way through six huge blood soaked worlds to inflict brutal revenge on the supremely evil C.H.E.B.
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H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Forget about the rules, there are none here. Just you, your weapon and the endless, ominous wastelands waiting for you to plunge into them. So, are you ready to become a predator among predators? Then welcome to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.. It will hurt, but damn it will be fun!