Single-player games like Risk of Rain Returns
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Risk of Rain Returns, 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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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Deep Rock Galactic
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
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Toypunk
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
A roguelite third-person puppet-shooter where you wield an entire toybox of absurd weaponry. Fight hordes of cotton-stuffed baddies across fantastical biomes in single-player or co-op. Experience crazy synergies and unlock more toys between runs!
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Vastloop
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Contract signed, body issued. Vastloop is a co-op roguelite FPS about expendable combat androids in the mines of a hostile planet. Shields feed on death, medkits don't exist, extraction is a privilege. You're a line item for Terra-Mine Corp. Every run — a chance to earn your keep.
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Cosmic Corps
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Dimension hop to freedom across hostile planets. Blast, slash, and laser alien hordes while crafting powerful synergies by combining unlockable skills with infinitely stacking items and perks. Become unstoppable in this action roguelike—and confront the Entity beyond the Rift.
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Guns & Dragons
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Dragons? Magic? Who cares? Fight with overwhelming firepower in this co-op FPS roguelite. Fight, choose, grow stronger. Science vs. magic. Fight enemies in dungeons, pick runes and artifacts to craft your build, use materials to expand your base, develop deadlier weapons, and take down dragons.
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Son of a Witch
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
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DROSS
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
DROSS is an FPS Roguelike set in a derelict facility infested with alien bugs. Travel a procedurally generated world, get powerful weapons and equipment, and upgrade your gear to survive. Fight the Dross, discover and destroy the infestation, and uncover the secrets of this mysterious installation.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The third entry in the Monster Hunter Stories RPG series is here! Twin Rathalos, born in a twist of fate. Monster Hunter Stories is an RPG series set in the Monster Hunter world, where you can become a Rider, raising and bonding with your favorite monsters.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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MapleStory
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Join over 260 million players worldwide in MapleStory, the world’s biggest 2D MMORPG adventure! Play now for free.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Monster Train
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
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DEADBOLT
Single-player alternative to Risk of Rain Returns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.