Single-player games like MPaliens
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to MPaliens, 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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Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Take on the hard yet fair world of Bloody Trapland. Jump, slide, dash and dodge your way through the many deadly levels. Find secrets, solve puzzles, unlock mysteries and unravel the story. Go at it alone or bring your friends along for a co-op experience like no other. 1-4 players online and/or splitscreen.
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Spelunky 2
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
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Levelhead
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Chaotic co-op platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and endless community-built levels await, so grab a friend and GO!
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Cobalt
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.
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Overcooked
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
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TowerFall Ascension
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.
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Move or Die
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.
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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
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Seven Bullets Zombie Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with MPaliens.
Oldschool infinite runner. Try to survive with your trusty rifle and remaining 7 bullets in a clip, in a world after the zombie apocalypse.
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Blacksmith Run
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MPaliens.
Go with the brave blacksmith on his journey for the Hammer of Gods. To get the legendary tool, you have to overcome 20 hardcore levels filled with deadly traps!
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Forgotten
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MPaliens.
Forgotten is a game where the main character got into a car accident, but after that, he ended up in an abandoned mansion, and then he realized that he was not alone
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Run Dude
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Hardcore, bloody platformer with a simple dude.
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Only One Rectangle
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with MPaliens.
Platformer with a variety of disorienting gameplay for an interesting gaming experience. A lot of colors, invisible painted platforms, traps, various puzzles.
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Another road
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MPaliens.
This is an epic humorous adventure. You play as crazy men in underpants who ride a disgusting cart and try to deliver goods. COOL, YEAH?
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Castle survival
Single-player alternative to MPaliens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MPaliens.
Castle survival is a game where you need to destroy an enemy castle with your army.