Single-player games like Swarm Grinder
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Swarm Grinder, 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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Survivors of the Dawn
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
A roguelite horde-survival bullet heaven with QUINTILLIONS of bullets over QUINTILLIONS of hordes. Mix weapons with items, modify, control chaos at terminals and break through tightening waves.
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Death Must Die
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.
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Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.
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Halls of Torment
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
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Project Lazarus
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Swarm Grinder.
You are the first party mech pilot of alien planet colonizers! Project Lazarus is a survival game with rogue-lite elements. Deploy and upgrade your mech to the metal!
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God Of Weapons
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
Embark on a thrilling journey in God of Weapons, an action roguelike where you must ascend the tower of Zhor to reclaim the last light for the world. To survive the monster onslaught on each tower's level, you'll need to obtain and carefully organize weapons and accessories in your inventory.
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Starward Rogue
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.
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Sodaman
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Swarm Grinder.
Sodaman is a bullet-heaven roguelike where you play as a supersoldier fighting alien hordes with soda powers. Find game-breaking sodas and concoct custom cocktails. Discover planets, unlock weapons, sodas, cybernetics, power-up cards, and more. But first, crack open a cold one.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
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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Soulstone Survivors
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
Face the Lords of the Void and their endless minions, collect their Soulstones and become a god! In this Action Roguelite, unveil secret spells, craft mighty weapons, unlock multiple characters, discover game-breaking synergies and conquer the power of the void.
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Megabonk
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
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Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
CODE OR DIE! Hack enemy systems & survive the security response by engineering lethal bullet-heaven algorithms. Your brain power determines your firepower across 190+ programming nodes. Debug your failures. Optimize your code. Complete the heist. HACK THE PLANET!
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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Swarm Grinder.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
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UBERMOSH
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.
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Geo Grinder
Single-player alternative to Swarm Grinder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Swarm Grinder.
Geo Grinder is an incremental roguelite where you shatter geometric enemies, harvest resources, and power up through a massive upgrade tree. Every run makes you stronger. Grind geometry, grow, repeat.