Single-player games like Danger Gazers
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Danger Gazers, 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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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
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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Woodpunk
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
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Survivor Mercs
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot! Exploit game-breaking synergies to beat the M.E.G.A. Corp. bosses in ever-changing operations. Lock, load, and loot, Commander!
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Toroom
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Danger Gazers.
Toroom is a dungeon crawler roguelike-like top-down shooter, where the protagonist just wants to come back to his bedroom after waking up in a world of fantasy. Fight your way through multiple biomes, clear rooms full of enemies, get as much loot as possible and defeat the bosses in your way.
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Mega City Force
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
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The Crackpet Show
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear ‘em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals!
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One Step From Eden
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
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Serious Sam: Tormental
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Serious Sam: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Danger Gazers.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
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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Dead Ground
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Tower defense reimagined! Dead Ground is a procedurally generated tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Each playthrough will offer randomly generated guns, skills and augments. You'll have to travel, collect scrap, water, manage your inventory and upgrade your base to survive!
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Kontrakt
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Kontrakt is a hyper-violent action-adventure game about schizophrenia with a dark and twisted story. You will assume the role of a hitman involved in mysterious contract killing, while uncovering the dirty truth and secrets behind the City of Light.
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Dungeons of Clay
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Danger Gazers.
Explore the ever-changing dungeons in the surreal world made of clay. Unlock the hidden secrets, overcome the dangers, defeat dreadful creatures and reap the treasures to acquire almighty power.
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The Dead Await: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Danger Gazers.
Get ready to experience the thrills and chills of The Dead Await: Prologue, a free and fully functional demo! Build your deck and try to survive in this deck-building survival RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.
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The Dead Await
Single-player alternative to Danger Gazers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Danger Gazers.
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.