Single-player games like The Cabbage Effect
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Cabbage Effect, 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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Phantast
Single-player alternative to The Cabbage Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.
Help Phantast save his tribe in this atmospheric and quirky top-down shooter!
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Salt VS Pepper
Single-player alternative to The Cabbage Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.
Salt VS Pepper is a twin-stick shooter where you switch between black and white every 3 seconds, leaving behind an evil clone every time you switch! Use guns, walls, bowling balls, and anything in between as a weapon!
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Arc’s Glitch Defender
Single-player alternative to The Cabbage Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.
Save the galaxy? Boring. Dylo wants the fame. Master breakneck speeds in this ego-fueled arena shooter. Blast through the Shadows, feed your pride, and uncover the dark secret behind a 'perfect' Utopia. Speed is your weapon; hesitation is a glitch.
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Son of a Gun
Single-player alternative to The Cabbage Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Cabbage Effect.
A retro-inspired, action packed, twin-stick shooter full of bullets, blood and explosions. Collect and manage your guns to exterminate jungle zombies, swarming bugs, heavy robots, slimy monsters and even space ghosts.
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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to The Cabbage Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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Blacksea Odyssey
Single-player alternative to The Cabbage Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears.
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Danger Scavenger
Single-player alternative to The Cabbage Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.
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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Crimsonland
Single-player alternative to The Cabbage Effect — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.