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Single-player games like Purgatory Overkill

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Purgatory Overkill, 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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    BullyBall — Steam game cover

    BullyBall

    Single-player alternative to Purgatory Overkill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Purgatory Overkill.

    How long can you stand against evolution itself? Grab the bow, shot'em all. As long as you can. But whatever your strategy is - it can't withstand in a skirmish against endlessly evolving sets of balls. Can't it?

    2021ActionEarly Access1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ash of Legends — Steam game cover

    Ash of Legends

    Single-player alternative to Purgatory Overkill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Purgatory Overkill.

    Grapple anywhere, build towers, place traps, shoot guns, launch arrows, and throw sabers, to defend the spores from hordes of the evil empire. Includes native Meta Quest with Link and Steam VR support.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Dark Method — Steam game cover

    The Dark Method

    Single-player alternative to Purgatory Overkill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Purgatory Overkill.

    Either play the randomly generated mansion to exorcise the hauntings or jump into a long story driven campaign where you get to explore scary environments, solve classic adventure game style puzzles and battle monsters along the way.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Automata Break — Steam game cover

    Automata Break

    Single-player alternative to Purgatory Overkill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Purgatory Overkill.

    Stop the escape of the infected automata in this Local Co-op Tower Defense First Person Shooter game for VR. Choose between playing solo or collaborating with a friend to build defensive structures and fight the Automata to avoid their escape.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AIRA VR — Steam game cover

    AIRA VR

    Single-player alternative to Purgatory Overkill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Purgatory Overkill.

    You believed tower defense is only about building towers? That's not quite right – because AIRA VR is not like other tower defense games in virtual reality. Once the battle starts you find yourself in the midst of the fight!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Defender Of Falyndor — Steam game cover

    Defender Of Falyndor

    Single-player alternative to Purgatory Overkill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Purgatory Overkill.

    Defender OF Falyndor is a First-Person Tower Defense game in Virtual Reality! Take control of your character, towers, and much more to protect Falyndor from waves of invasions to become the ultimate Defender of Falyndor!

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Out of Ammo — Steam game cover

    Out of Ammo

    Single-player alternative to Purgatory Overkill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Purgatory Overkill.

    Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wandering in Space VR — Steam game cover

    Wandering in Space VR

    Single-player alternative to Purgatory Overkill — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Purgatory Overkill.

    Join Wandering In Space, a unique FPS ROGUELITE SCI-FI experience built for VR. With a variety of space weapons, upgradable armory, power ups and unknown superpower, you, a soldier without any memory have to fight the mutants, cyborgs and the rebels to survive in the space of unknown...

    2023ActionIndieEarly Access14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →