Single-player games like Run Dude
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Run Dude, 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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Gutwhale
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Gutwhale is a roguelite about managing the space between you and your ammo, while fighting your way through a digestive system!
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NOT A HERO
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.
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TowerClimb
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
TowerClimb is a difficult and rewarding procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. Enormous and mysterious towers of ancient unknown origin stand above humanity, extending to the heavens. Struggle forward as a weak human, driven by an iron will to reach the top.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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Valfaris
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
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Nidhogg 2
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.
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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
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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BUTCHER
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
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Seven Bullets Zombie Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Run Dude.
Oldschool infinite runner. Try to survive with your trusty rifle and remaining 7 bullets in a clip, in a world after the zombie apocalypse.
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Blacksmith Run
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
Go with the brave blacksmith on his journey for the Hammer of Gods. To get the legendary tool, you have to overcome 20 hardcore levels filled with deadly traps!
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MPaliens
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
MPAliens - 2D Arena Platformer. It's a local party game with intense PVP matches, hardest COOP missions and different Bosses on different maps.
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Forgotten
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
Forgotten is a game where the main character got into a car accident, but after that, he ended up in an abandoned mansion, and then he realized that he was not alone
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Only One Rectangle
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Platformer with a variety of disorienting gameplay for an interesting gaming experience. A lot of colors, invisible painted platforms, traps, various puzzles.
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Another road
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
This is an epic humorous adventure. You play as crazy men in underpants who ride a disgusting cart and try to deliver goods. COOL, YEAH?
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Castle survival
Single-player alternative to Run Dude — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
Castle survival is a game where you need to destroy an enemy castle with your army.