Single-player games like No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, 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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No More Heroes
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Fight your way to the top in this HD remaster of everyone's favorite assassin action game! As all-American otaku Travis Touchdown, use your trusty beam katana to hack-and-slash though the competition and claim the title of world's #1 assassin!
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No More Heroes 3
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Travis Touchdown is back, baby! The otaku assassin takes up his trusty beam katana once more to slash his way to the top of the Galactic Superhero Rankings and save the world in the latest entry in the No More Heroes series.
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Sunset Suckerpunch
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Meet K8E: a talking, transforming motorcycle-sword-gauntlet. Drive her to meet your enemies, and wield her to crater them into the asphalt. Turn the bodies of your enemies into supersonic projectiles in fast-paced, power-tripping combat. Don't let them take her voice.
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Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Legacy)
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, must face the ambitious Ryuji Goda, the Dragon of Kansai, in an all-out war between two rival yakuza clans. An extreme recreation of one of Yakuza’s most beloved entries, now in stunning 4K and unlocked framerates. There can be only one dragon.
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Yakuza Kiwami (Legacy)
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
SEGA’s critically-acclaimed entry that started a legend. Become Kazuma Kiryu, an up-and-coming yakuza who takes the fall for the murder of a crime boss, only to emerge from prison ten years later to a changed world. Remastered from the ground up, now in 4K and uncapped framerates on PC.
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UPPERS
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
UPPERS is an over-the-top brawler that puts you in control of numerous fighters, including bonus character Daidoji-senpai of the SENRAN KAGURA series. Follow their journey through seven varied Acts across multiple difficulty levels and a multitude of locations!
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DmC: Devil May Cry
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
In this retelling of Dante's origin story which is set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC Devil May Cry™ retains the stylish action.
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Hi-Fi RUSH
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Test your abilities in two new game modes, uncover new rewards and even a few secrets in the Arcade Challenge! Update! Feel the beat as wannabe rockstar Chai and his ragtag team fight against an evil megacorp in a world that syncs to the music.
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Yakuza 0
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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killer7
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Sneak into a world of underground assassins as Harman Smith, a man who manifests 7 deadly personalities, the killer7. Take control of this distinct murderers' row as they hunt down the sinister Kun Lan to thwart his plan of world dominance.
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ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Paint the screen red and travel the cosmos in this bloodstained action adventure game! Witness the latest from Grasshopper Manufacture: the advent of ULTRA-VIOLENT SCIENCE FICTION!
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The Silver Case
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
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Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Travis Strikes Again, Beam Katana charged and ready! He's been sucked into the legendary Death Drive Mk II games console, where anyone who collects all the Death Balls has their wishes granted (...or do they?).
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Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Shadows of the Damned, an action-adventure road trip through hell, has been remastered at last! Get ready for a story about rock, love, and just a little bit of demon slaying.
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The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
Single-player alternative to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In the bayside area of Kanto, a murder with unknown motivations sets off a series of seemingly random events bringing together peculiar individuals, one of whom is detective Tokio Morishima. When their ambitions begin to collide, a truly shocking pattern emerges…