Single-player games like City of Beats
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to City of Beats, 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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Beat Hazard 3
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
Are you ready to explore your music collection mapped as a stunning galaxy of wonders? Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven twin stick shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Temp Zero
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
Temp Zero is a minimalist roguelike which mixes intense action and musical bullet hell. Fight enemies which attack to the beat, choose perks, defeat the final boss, unlock new weapons, spells & soundtracks!
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Sharded World
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
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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Earl vs. the Mutants
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with City of Beats.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
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Flame Over
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
Blending top down "squirt em-up" action and "Pyroguelike" game mechanics, Flame Over features fast-paced fire-fighting thrills, randomly generated levels, 4 different game zones and dastardly hazards at every turn!
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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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ATOMINE
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with City of Beats.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Wildfrost
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with City of Beats.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
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Hades
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
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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Road to Ballhalla
Single-player alternative to City of Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with City of Beats.
Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!