Single-player games like Enlightenment
Below are 12 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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Ziggurat
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
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Leap of Fate
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Beyond the Long Night
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Explore a whimsical underground world whilst being chased by a mysterious corrupting force in this charming twin-stick action roguelike! Befriend loveable characters, fend off enemies with chaotic abilities, and uncover the secrets of this subterranean kingdom caught in a time loop.
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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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Fallback
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
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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Metaverse Keeper / 元能失控
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
Metaverse Keeper is a dungeon crawler with roguelike elements where four heroes join forces to save the “Metaverse" – created when a cosmic event tangled space-time. Explore randomly-generated worlds, customize your weapons, and fight crazy monsters – in solo or co-op mode!
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Enlightenment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Enlightenment.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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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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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!