Single-player games like PERISH
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to PERISH, 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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Painkiller
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PERISH.
The classic Painkiller series is back! Battle through Purgatory in fast-paced co-op action, wielding infernal weapons against relentless demonic hordes. Condemned for your sins, the Voice of the Creator offers you a chance at redemption. Will you seize it or be lost to darkness?
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Scathe
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PERISH.
Scathe is an intense, blood-soaked FPS where quick reflexes are the key to surviving bullet Hell. Rip through the labyrinth that stands between you and your ascension. Blast your way through the underworld’s deadliest demons solo or with up to three comrades in drop-in/drop-out online co-op.
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Blood: Refreshed Supply™
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PERISH.
Things are about to get… bloody! Soak up 42 pulse-pounding levels dripping with Lovecraftian atmosphere as you battle your way through armies of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hell hounds, and other insatiable horrors, in your quest to defeat the loathsome Tchernobog.
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Dread Templar
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PERISH.
Dread Templar is a fast-paced hardcore old-school FPS, combining classic 90s shooter and modern FPS elements. Unlock and combine dozens of weapon upgrades and skills, embrace the Dread Force and obliterate hordes of fiendish enemies. Become the scariest thing in hell and get your revenge!
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Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PERISH.
Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition is a First-Person Shooter based on Games Workshop’s cult classic board game set in Warhammer 40,000 universe. Expanding upon the original game, and featuring a host of new content, new features and a richer multiplayer mode.
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Mother Russia Bleeds
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PERISH.
An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.
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DOOMED
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PERISH.
DOOMED is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.
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Back 4 Blood
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PERISH.
Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.
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Roboquest
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PERISH.
Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.
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ELDERBORN
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PERISH.
ELDERBORN - a Metal AF* Slasher with brutal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. Be that merciless slayer. Uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom. Forge your own destiny! *Action Fantasy.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PERISH.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PERISH.
Watch as this nostalgic yet completely reimagined storybook world unravels before your very eyes. Taking cues from both Ghosts 'n Goblins and Ghouls 'n Ghosts and giving birth to something entirely new, Resurrection is a title worthy of its name.
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Zombies
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PERISH.
Zombies is a round based survival game following a sole surviver and thier blood lust for killing the undead.
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Left 4 Dead
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PERISH.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
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Diablo® IV
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PERISH.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Single-player alternative to PERISH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PERISH.
The critically acclaimed Vermintide 2 is a visually stunning and groundbreaking melee action game pushing the boundaries of the first person co-op genre. Join the fight now!