Single-player games like Burning Knight
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Burning Knight, 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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Dungeon Souls
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
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Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Your best friend wants to cheer you up, so he tries his best to make a dungeon for you to explore. Explore his wholesome, weird-as-heck, scrappy rogue-lite oozing with charm and humor for 1-2 Players.
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Fury Unleashed
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.
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Ants Took My Eyeball
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
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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Legend of Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
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Caveblazers
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
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Astral Ascent
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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UnderMine
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.
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Voidigo
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
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.