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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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Single-player alternative to Burning Knight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Burning Knight.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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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.