Single-player games like Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!, 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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I Hate Running Backwards
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
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RAM: Random Access Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
The roguelike where you play as the enemies. Take control of your foes, turn them against each other in fast-paced combat, and leap to a new host before your current body breaks down.
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Death Must Die
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
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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Swarm Grinder
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
An action roguelite game with alien swarms and mechs. Battle enemies to make your way through a mass of spreading and evolving cells hosting dormant enemies. Collect a variety of game-changing skills and upgrades to create unique builds.
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Kill to Collect
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
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Neophyte
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
A mini topdown action roguelike with chaotic spell-slinging hack-n-slash combat. Collect spells, choose perks and discover powerful synergies to become an unstoppable monster-slaying wizard.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Cultivation Story: Reincarnation
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Cultivation Story: Reincarnation is a top-down pixel art style action roguelike based on cultivation and Chinese mythology.
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Project Starship
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?
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Reset 1-1
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
The world has ended, Demons have risen to conquer the uninhabited and flourishing nature outside. It's your turn, with your unknown identity, to find your path for a new beginning. Let's not beat about the bush here. Reset 1-1 is everything you loved about the late 80's/early 90's. It's a blast from the past, with a fresh spin.
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Red Death
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Red Death is a vertical shooter, Prologue of the series Project Starship!
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Null Drifter
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Null Drifter is a 1BIT LO-FI shooter, a journey into the void inside a computer simulation! Lose yourself in this frenetic yet chill experience!
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Project Starship X
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
The Rogue-Lite shooter where you CRASH-KILL comical abominations! Pilot your spaceship as Swagthulhu in this original and wacky "Lovecraftian Parody"!
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Pity Pit
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Dig Dug meets Downwell! Dig your doom, save Gwendoline from the Devil Johnson! 2D platforming, digging, ores, crafting, bombs!!
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Z-Warp
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.
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Feeble Light
Single-player alternative to Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!.
Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!