Single-player games like Esse Proxy
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Esse Proxy, 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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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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Destropolis
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
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Chaos Town
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
Chaos Town is a top-down chaotic shooter game where everything is destructible!
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RUINER
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
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Waves 2: Notorious
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Esse Proxy.
Waves 2: Notorious is an arcade twin-stick shooter set in Cyberspace. Build Combos, earn Adrenaline and unleash powerful Burst attacks as you Dive into the Net and do battle against an AI that adapts to your weaknesses!
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Mr. Fast
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
Mr. Fast is a top-down shooting game with a bullet time twist! Enemy's time moves more slowly than yours. You're fast enough and you can kill others with one shot.
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Waves
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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Bullet Runner: The First Slaughter
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Esse Proxy.
A clone army is taking over the world. Kill them all in an epic single-player campaign to save humanity, and yourself!
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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The Ascent
Single-player alternative to Esse Proxy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Esse Proxy.
The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?