Single-player games like NOMAD
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to NOMAD, 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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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to NOMAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOMAD.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to NOMAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOMAD.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Noobs Want to Live
Single-player alternative to NOMAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOMAD.
Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!
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Doomsday Hunters
Single-player alternative to NOMAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOMAD.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
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PONCHO
Single-player alternative to NOMAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOMAD.
A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?
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Deadly Days
Single-player alternative to NOMAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOMAD.
Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to NOMAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOMAD.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Nidhogg 2
Single-player alternative to NOMAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOMAD.
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.