Single-player games like Bartlow's Dread Machine
Below are 14 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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Monsters 'til Midnight
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Use steampunk weaponry to vanquish the legions of evil and survive until the clock strikes midnight! In this fast-paced horde survival game, each powerful upgrade can help turn the tide. Go it alone, or join another player in your pursuit to outlast the inevitable march of time itself!
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Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
The definitive 'Turbo Edition' of the easy to play hard to master space blaster. Bringing more game modes, ships, challenges, upgradable power-ups and frantic retro space blasting fun than ever before. Alone or in co-op you’ll keep coming back to unlock ships, upgrade weapons and beat your high-score.
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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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#KILLALLZOMBIES
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
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Chippy
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Chip destructible bosses apart pixel-by-pixel in this twin-stick bullet-hell shooter.
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Watchlist
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Accused of committing a crime affecting the nation's security, you are now tasked with tracking down various undesirables in order to redeem yourself in the eyes of the powers that be. Blast through procedurally generated levels and complete the Watchlist in this retro arcade shooter!
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Danger Scavenger
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Danger Scavenger is fast-paced action, cyberpunk-themed, roguelite skyline crawler. Blow up, cut, shoot enemy robots on the roofs of skyscrapers. Choose your way to higher levels, loot, buy stuff, upgrade yourself, fight against greedy corporations, be a rebel!
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Woodpunk
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
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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.
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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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Art of Murder - Hunt for the Puppeteer
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A series of dark macabre murders is crisscrossing two continents and FBI agent Nicole Bonnet is called in again to investigate. The only clue, mysterious dolls dressed in 18th century costumes, are left next to the deceased. What are the motives behind the actions of an insane pitiless slayer?
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The Black Knight
Single-player alternative to Bartlow's Dread Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Bartlow's Dread Machine.
In a fight against time, Diego needs to find the 5 stones of Praxx to open the portal and save Princess Amanda from the mighty Lox, leader of all monsters in the Kingdom of Belvedor.
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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!