Single-player games like Bartlow's Dread Machine
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Bartlow's Dread 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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Tower 57
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread 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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Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
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Mega City Force
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
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KILL KNIGHT
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.
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Nex Machina
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
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Naval Warfare
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
As Commander of a Naval Super-Destroyer, wage war in a military campaign of epic proportions in, under and above the surface!
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Sektori
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another state of consciousness.
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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
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BioShock Infinite
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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The Puppeteer
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Punishing pixel-art platformer about puppetry and potions!
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Voodoo Vince: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
The classic character platformer is back after 13 years and newly remastered! Help Vince run, jump and fight his way through cemeteries, swamps and an evil carnival as he seeks to save his creator Madam Charmaine from the clutches of Kosmo The Inscrutable.