Single-player games like Knight Terrors
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Knight Terrors, 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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Atomik: RunGunJumpGun
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
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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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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Annalynn
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
Annalynn is a 2D platformer made in the style of arcade games from the early '80s. Collect the coins, grab the bonus foods, and turn the tables with blinding rubies! Think you've got what it takes to go for the high score?
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Super House of Dead Ninjas
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
Super House of Dead Ninjas is an action arcade game with roguelite elements. Race against a 30 second timer as you descend floor after foe-filled floor and attempt to unlock the secrets of this deadly tower!Play as the fearsome Crimson Ninja, wielding an arsenal of deadly ninja weapons and attacks.
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Devil Daggers
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
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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Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Knight Terrors.
Explore a huge open game world in classic action-adventure fashion! Prove your worth by fighting through monster-infested dungeons to save the Kingdom of Blossom!
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Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.
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Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Knight Terrors.
Control "The Nerd" in a retro-inspired action platformer! It's two games in one, remixed and rebalanced to bring you the ultimate experience of Nerd Rage. Featuring stylized pixel art inspired by classic games, a highly energetic soundtrack, and challenging levels -- plus a special NEW chapter!
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Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!
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Spectacular Sparky
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
A throwback to the golden age of white-gloved 16-bit video-game mascots, Spectacular Sparky is an action-packed platformer with wacky characters, explosive weapons and boss battles to treasure!
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MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
Retro platforming action in this adaptation of a terrible movie.
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The Rocky Horror Show Video Game
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
A strange journey
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Terror in the Corn
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Knight Terrors.
The witch’s ominous chanting echoes through the corn field, a rogues' gallery of deranged monsters is out for your blood, an eerie mist rolls in from worlds unknown... and you don’t even remember how you got here. Can you escape the Terror in the Corn?
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Frankie Freako
Single-player alternative to Knight Terrors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Knight Terrors.
Smash robots and upgrade your Freako in this freaky Roguelike Action-Platformer