Single-player games like Cruelty Squad
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Cruelty Squad, 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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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cruelty Squad.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
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Psycho Patrol R
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
FPS/mecha hybrid europolice sim with emphasis on interacting with NPCs and different gameplay systems.
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Peripeteia
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
You are Marie, a cyborg mercenary dropped into the rot of a post-Soviet city of corruption and opportunity. Shoot, sneak, hack, climb or talk your way through alt-history cyberpunk Poland in an immersive sim where every problem has multiple solutions and every rooftop is reachable.
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Golden Light
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
Eat weapons, be scared and question your own mind in this Survival-Horror FPS Prop Hunt Roguelike about meat. Walls are watching you!
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BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
A BRAZILIAN BOOMER SHOOTER GAME MADE USING THE ID TECH 2 ENGINE! SHOOT, JUMP, EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, HELL AND EVEN HEAVEN! SAVE BRAZIL!
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SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
The long-awaited third game in the groundbreaking SUPERHOT franchise - MIND CONTROL DELETE gives you more insight into the world of SUPERHOT, more story, more signature gameplay. Keep dancing the slow-motion ballet of destruction for so much longer than ever before.
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DUSK
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
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Splatter
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
Splatter is a first-person fever dream where you blast constantly-adapting enemies into neon sprays of pulp and slime. Enter a digital mindscape constructed by four anonymous administrators. Can you survive? Can you remain sane? Can you remain yourself?
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HITMAN™
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cruelty Squad.
There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.
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Brigador: Up-Armored Edition
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
Pilot a mech to hunt down and destroy the oppressive government of a cyberpunk autocracy. In this fast-paced, top-down shooter, use overwhelming firepower to destroy columns of tanks and level buildings. Unlock up to 56 unique vehicles and 40 weapons.
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cruelty Squad.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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Brigand: Oaxaca
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
Brigand: Oaxaca is a highly difficult post-apocalyptic RPG/FPS set in Mexico. Emphasis is on challenge, a branching story with multiple endings, and total freedom of action (kill friendly characters, rob stores, jump across roofs, etc.).
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Wrought Flesh
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cruelty Squad.
Rip out organs and equip them in your own body. Fight biopunk monsters and drugged-up space bandits. You are a Gajeshian Cultist: A near-mythological being built from the bodies of long-dead saints.
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The Office Void
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cruelty Squad.
You’re stuck on the night shift. The code refuses to compile, the deadline is on fire, and your mind is no longer yours. To keep from passing out and blowing the entire shift, you have to drink coffee. Lots of it.
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cruelty Squad.
Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.
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Prey
Single-player alternative to Cruelty Squad — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cruelty Squad.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.