Single-player games like Gates of Hell
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Gates of Hell, 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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Devil Daggers
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.
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Painkiller Hell & Damnation
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gates of Hell.
Evil has returned! Demonic powers are manifesting themselves as a myriad of dark creatures, fighting over the fates of imprisoned souls caught in Purgatory.
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HYPER DEMON
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
HYPER DEMON is an FPS like no other. a pearl of lightning. a dream from the future. a drop of poison. a swan song. The faster you slay demons, the harder the game and the higher your score. There is an end. Will it see you?
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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gates of Hell.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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Sektori
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gates of Hell.
Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another state of consciousness.
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Project Warlock
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
Project Warlock is a first-person shooter that fans of Doom, Hexen, and Wolfenstein cannot miss. It serves you an exploding cocktail of bullets, spells, and monsters. Battle through 60 levels of non-stop action, packed with bloodthirsty enemies and challenging bosses.
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Hellbound
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
Classic First Person Shooter style game. Like the good old days. An action game focused on speed, gore, guns, and metal music. Inspired by the 90s’ classics with modern visuals and audio!
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Vektor Wars
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
Certified 100% pure arcade action, rendered in eye-melting neon vectors, Vektor Wars is classic first-person blasting for the shooter connoisseur.
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VHS Vermin
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
Rewind to a grimy 80s B-movie nightmare. VHS Vermin is a retro survival-horror FPS: three cursed tapes and a wrap-around story, scarce ammo and swarms of mutated spiders, slugs and worse lurking in the dark. Part 1 of the VHS Horror Series.
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VHS Freaks
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
Part 2 of the VHS Horror Series. Three 80s B-movie horror tapes linked by a twisted trailer-park wrap-around: mutants, ghosts, possessed mannequins and cannibals, scarce ammo and nowhere safe to hide. A retro survival-horror FPS.
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VHS-Aliens – Part 3 of the VHS Horror Series
Single-player alternative to Gates of Hell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gates of Hell.
The VHS Horror Series continues with pure 80s B-movie alien invasion terror. Limited ammo, relentless hordes, and grotesque extraterrestrial nightmares. VHS-Aliens — the tape gets even bloodier.