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Single-player games like Cavity Busters

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Cavity Busters, 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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    Star of Providence — Steam game cover

    Star of Providence

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Star of Providence is a top down action shooter with procedurally generated elements. Explore a large, abandoned facility in search of incredible power, fighting dangerous foes and gaining new weapons and upgrades as you progress.

    2017ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A Way To Die — Steam game cover

    A Way To Die

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Enter the human body with A Way To Die! Play as a disease that attempts to infect its host by contaminating organs and mutating! Discover new ways to win every time you play with all the different diseases!

    2022ActionIndie6.31 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Straimium Immortaly — Steam game cover

    Straimium Immortaly

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Straimium Immortaly is a shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler. Explore the butts-hard procedurally generated Cubicus battling beasties, looting endless item and weapon upgrades and defeating huge boss meanies in your vengeful quest to eradicate the Queeni Emperess.

    2016ActionIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ATOMINE — Steam game cover

    ATOMINE

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.

    2017ActionIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Doomsday Hunters — Steam game cover

    Doomsday Hunters

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

    2023ActionIndie15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slimekeep — Steam game cover

    Slimekeep

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    In a world becoming corrupted by the evil Slime King, KILL or CAPTURE various slimes to grow stronger and save Slimetopia! Venture through procedurally generated levels in this fast-paced roguelike, if you're tough enough to not get slimed...

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starward Rogue — Steam game cover

    Starward Rogue

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.

    2016ActionIndieRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Void Rains Upon Her Heart — Steam game cover

    The Void Rains Upon Her Heart

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Help her heart battle tough bosses in this Boss Rush, Bullet-hell with rogue-like elements. Fight through several randomly chosen boss battles leading up to a final battle. Each defeated monster will give her random gifts that power up her heart. Don't let her heart break!

    2018ActionIndieEarly Access12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Binding of Isaac — Steam game cover

    The Binding of Isaac

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Enter the Gungeon — Steam game cover

    Enter the Gungeon

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rheum — Steam game cover

    Rheum

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Jump down the esophagus of a body plagued by viruses and big bad bosses in this reverse vertical scrolling shoot'em up! Collect eye crusties, upgrade your pupils, and clear the screen of bullets with your cornea crushing eye blasts!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    City Limits — Steam game cover

    City Limits

    Single-player alternative to Cavity Busters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cavity Busters.

    Relax and build cities on a desolate tranquil island. Plan ahead to cover the island efficiently by combining buildings and cementing your place on a tile. Each turn an entity spreads, attempting to take over barren or unstable tiles.

    2022StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →