Single-player games like Patch Quest
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Patch Quest, 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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PickaLegend
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Patch Quest.
PickaLegend - A bullet hell game about visiting interesting places and destroying everything in sight with your pets.
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Shape Shifter: Formations
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Patch Quest.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
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Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
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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#KILLALLZOMBIES
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
#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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Circus Interstellar
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Circus Interstellar is a brutal arcade shooter featuring high-octane action, and killer music! Earth voyagers encounter a sadistic alien race with a terrifying clownish appearance and a nasty appetite. Will the survivors escape the gory circus? Or will they be assimilated like all the rest?
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Chippy
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Chip destructible bosses apart pixel-by-pixel in this twin-stick bullet-hell shooter.
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Ballistic Tanks
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Ballistic Tanks is the best tank game you've played since the 80's. Battle in exhilarating local multiplayer, or challenge yourself in an intense solo/co-op arcade mode. Play 5 game modes in over 50 maps; and destroy your enemies in a frenzy of bullets, lasers, and explosions!
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Cyberpulse
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Slam your way through waves of viruses and hurl your friends through cyberspace in this flashy arcade thrower that combines classic twin-stick action with inventive physics for an electrifying adventure.
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NeuroVoider
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
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Nex Machina
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
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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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
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Returnal™
Single-player alternative to Patch Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Patch Quest.
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.