Single-player games like Null Drifter
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Null Drifter, 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 Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
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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Blazing Beaks
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
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NeuroVoider
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
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Zombie Party
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!
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Survivor Mercs
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
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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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
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Repetendium
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Repetendium is a top-down roguelike-lite shooter. Select from a rowdy group of characters to play as and wield an ever expanding variety of gear and items to conquer the underworld. Death awaits...
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Serious Sam: Tormental
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
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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Project Starship
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?
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Reset 1-1
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Null Drifter.
The world has ended, Demons have risen to conquer the uninhabited and flourishing nature outside. It's your turn, with your unknown identity, to find your path for a new beginning. Let's not beat about the bush here. Reset 1-1 is everything you loved about the late 80's/early 90's. It's a blast from the past, with a fresh spin.
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Red Death
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Red Death is a vertical shooter, Prologue of the series Project Starship!
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Project Starship X
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
The Rogue-Lite shooter where you CRASH-KILL comical abominations! Pilot your spaceship as Swagthulhu in this original and wacky "Lovecraftian Parody"!
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Pity Pit
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Dig Dug meets Downwell! Dig your doom, save Gwendoline from the Devil Johnson! 2D platforming, digging, ores, crafting, bombs!!
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Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
A pixel SURVIVOR ROGUE-LITE that will give you a hypnotic addiction! You do all the usual "Survivor" stuff, but this time you'll have to hire a therapist in order to stop playing!
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Z-Warp
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.
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Feeble Light
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!