Single-player games like Ghostly Matter
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Ghostly Matter, 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 Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
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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After Death
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Cathedral
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
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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OUTBUDDIES DX
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
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The Mummy Demastered
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghostly Matter.
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghostly Matter.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Guacamelee! Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
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Ghostbusters™
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghostly Matter.
Grab your Proton Pack and join the Ghostbusters alongside your friends, exploring Manhattan, blasting ghosts, and trapping those runaway ghouls.
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B.I.O.T.A.
Single-player alternative to Ghostly Matter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghostly Matter.
Intense 2D action-platformer set in a mining colony infected by an alien plague. In B.I.O.T.A. you can choose your hero, fight gruesome monsters, and customize your 8-bit retro experience with swappable 4-color palettes.