Single-player games like LONE RUIN
Below are 14 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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Headbangers in Holiday Hell
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Christmas. Christmas never changes. Soon those overzealous little freaks will swarm the city led by that bearded maniac. But this time, we fight back. Inspired by Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Beavis&Butthead's heavy metal comedy, this is twin-stick mayhem like you've never experienced before.
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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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Sharded World
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
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SANDRIPPER
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Tear across the desert, obliterating wave after wave with your nuclear missile powered dual-wielding hover tank. A tight, punchy wave survival sandbox with ludicrous weaponry, exhilarating rocket-tank combat, and daily leaderboards!
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Destropolis 2
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with LONE RUIN.
Hordes of red cube enemies. Bullets, lasers and nukes. Cities to raze to the ground.
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Romanticized Dreams of a Post-Apocalyptic Cowpoke
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Romanticized Dreams of a Post-Apocalyptic Cowpoke is a top down action shooter with randomly generated loot, levels, and enemies. Find unique weapons and upgrades to blast, explode, laser, and kick your way through an army of dastardly bandits!
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Dead Oculus
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
Dead Oculus is a lethal, fast-paced bullet-hell that fuses arcade and roguelike elements. Brutalise your foes in gauntlets of handcrafted arenas by wielding deadly weapons with cataclysmic augments.
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Pew Pew Magic Wizard Fighter
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
It's Wizard VS Wizard in this isometric arcade battle blaster! Dominate a gauntlet of Best-of-5 duels across unique, destructible arenas that change with every match. Out-maneuver rivals with your chosen fighter's special moves to an eclectic electronic score by inflexi0n.
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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.
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Rage Corp
Single-player alternative to LONE RUIN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with LONE RUIN.
A short, surreal, first person, tech smashing incremental game. Smash, collect the rewards and upgrade.