Single-player games like Aggelos
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Aggelos, 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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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Cathedral
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
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Alwa's Awakening
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aggelos.
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
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Chasm
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
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Inexistence Rebirth
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Rediscover this great Metroidvania game in a brand new version with a lot of features and improvements! Run in a vast world full of mysteries and action in this Metroidvania-style game inspired by the classics of the 16-bit era.
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Rogue Legacy 2
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
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Environmental Station Alpha
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
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Astalon: Tears of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Aggelos.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
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Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Boasting beautiful, hand-drawn animations and a re-orchestrated soundtrack, the cult classic returns with a unique blend of exploration, action, and adventure!
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Embark on an all-new adventure with Shantae, the hair-whipping belly dancing genie. After losing her magic, Shantae teams up with the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from a curse.
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Aggelos.
SEGA’s collection of Mega Drive & Genesis Classics comes to a new generation, now updated with even more features: online multiplayer, achievements, mirror mode, rewind, save states, VR and more! Over 50 classic games in one great package. Get into the classics!
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California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
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Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Aggelos.
The adventures of Asha, the little warrior, begin! Together with her blue sidekick Pepelogoo, she will run through numerous stages and save the Monster World from the darkness.
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Metroidvania Maker
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
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1Quest
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Aggelos.
1Quest is a roguelike, a challenging turn based RPG with high replay value