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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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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One Step From Eden
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
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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30XX
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Dungeon Souls
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
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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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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
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Astral Ascent
Single-player alternative to Null Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Null Drifter.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
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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!