Single-player games like Town of Machine
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Town of Machine, 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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Kusan: City of Wolves
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.
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RUINER
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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Shadowgrounds
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Town of Machine.
Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...
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Tower 57
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
Tower 57 is a fast-paced neo-retro shooter where cooperation is as important as your ammo capacity. As a member of an extraordinary task force fight your way through a dieselpunk megatower and uncover its hidden secrets.
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Hell is Others
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
Hell is Others is an extraction top-down shooter combining roguelike elements. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt, and loot in a place where blood is currency.
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NeverAwake
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
A girl who never wakes up. She has been fighting monsters in her dreams... "NeverAwake" is a nightmarish twin-stick shooter with a unique worldview and original game rules.
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12 is Better Than 6
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
12 is Better Than 6 is a dynamic top-down shooter with stealth elements, presented in a Wild West theme. The story puts you in the shoes of escaped slave fleeing to the United States in 1873.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Town of Machine.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Super Panda Adventures
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
In Super Panda Adventures, you play as the brave panda-knight Fu, who is about to finish his training to become the new guardian of the Princess. At the same day of the big celebration party, some uninvited Robots show up to conquer the planet and take the Princess away in their Space Ships!
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UNLOVED
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Town of Machine.
Based on the community award-winning Doom2 mod with the same name by the same creator, UNLOVED is reimagined in the Unreal Engine 4 to bring forth the unspeakable terror in new ways. Play coop with your friends, increase your skills, mod your weapons and face the horror that this unearthly place holds...
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Town of Machine.
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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Dimension Drifter
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
You are one of the most dangerous people in the world. Our timeline has collapsed hundreds of years ago. Since then, Ancient Gods have emerged through the cracks of reality, shaping it into a twisted realm of chaos. You are the only one who can stop them. Get ready.
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Gun and Girl
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
Experience the combination of shooting and puzzle elements
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GunGirl 2
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
GunGirl2 is an action platformer in the style of games like Metroid, Castlevania or Cave Story. But with blood… LOTS of blood! Go on an epic adventure and explore a huge world with the heroic blonde chick GunGirl or her best friend GunDude.
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Action Commando
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
As a time travelling Spartan Soldier, you must stop the Cult of the Fallen Gods that are turning people into burger meat. Grab your sword and assault cannon and deal death to these disfigured freaks in the name of humanity.
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Action Commando 2
Single-player alternative to Town of Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Town of Machine.
The Action Commando Saga continues as the evil Cultists have taken over Saturn and are controlling people's minds on earth with their eldritch technology. The only person who can stop them is Chronos, the Time Travelling Spartan Soldier.