Single-player games like Aggelos
Below are 15 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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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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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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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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Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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Omega Strike
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Omega Strike is a metroidvania game with a vast, open ended world and multiple playable characters. Explore the world, learn new abilities, upgrade your weapons and defeat Doctor Omega and his mutant armies!
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Xeodrifter
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.
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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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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
Single-player alternative to Aggelos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Aggelos.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.
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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