Single-player games like The Cleaner
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Cleaner, 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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NEXT FLOOR
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
NEXT FLOOR is a score attack, fast-paced, difficult, gory fps, with a simple objective, reach the highest floor you can. Take all your stress out on enemies and make the most creative kills to get as many points as possible, however, higher the floor, more difficult it will be. How far can you go?
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Maximum Action
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.
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Better Than Dead
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
A brutal bodycam revenge FPS set in Hong Kong. Slide into bullet time, fight up close, take down your kidnappers, and record every second of your revenge.
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Trepang2
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
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BRUTALISTICK VR
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
The golden age of violent flash games now in your VR headset. Fully physics based combat with melee and firearms featuring copious amounts of blood, gore and destruction.
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STANDBOX
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
STANDBOX is a single-player physics sandbox about bullying a ragdoll. Shoot him, push him, watch him get back up until he doesn't.
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SUPERHOT VR
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...
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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
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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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Cleaner.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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SUPERHOT
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
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F.E.A.R.
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Cleaner.
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Cleaner.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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I wanna be The Cat
Single-player alternative to The Cleaner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
I wanna be the Cat is a challenging roguelite platformer inspired by I wanna be the Guy fangames.Fight against famous videogame characters turned into cats and try to claim "THE CAT" as the ultimate title.