Single-player games like LONE RUIN
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to LONE RUIN, 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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Go Mecha Ball
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with LONE RUIN.
Load up and roll out, in this twin stick shooter with roguelike progression! Blast your way through arcade-style levels, using pinball-style physics mixed with an arsenal of devastating weapons. Defeat waves of enemy bots, battle big bosses, and upgrade your mech between runs.
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Dead Estate
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Cornered with nowhere else to turn, can you escape the monster-filled mansion? Dead Estate is a gory, fast-paced, challenging roguelike shooter with a heavy emphasis on horror.
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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric "ship" trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars.
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Leap of Fate
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?
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Mega City Force
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
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Doomsday Hunters
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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Rogue Stormers
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Wild Growth
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with LONE RUIN.
Wild Growth is a short, actionpacked incremental healer game set in a grim norse world.
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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.