Single-player games like Cartacombs
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Cartacombs, 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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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Torchlight II
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
The adventure continues in Torchlight II! An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world. Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
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.
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Mark of the Ninja
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
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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Dreaming Isles
Single-player alternative to Cartacombs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cartacombs.
A farming life sim with high seas adventure. Grow crops, grow ammo, grow a backbone! Side with the Pirates or help restore Global Trade. Feed the islanders, forge relationships, find romance, and call people "scurvy dog"! Raise the mainsail, fire the cannons, and set sail for adventure!