Single-player games like Kungfu Cowboy
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Kungfu Cowboy, 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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Spelunky 2
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kungfu Cowboy.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
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Rogue Stormers
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
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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Lost Castle / 失落城堡
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
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Fury Unleashed
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
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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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
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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Neon Abyss
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Celeste
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Kungfu Cowboy.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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Cowboy 3030
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kungfu Cowboy.
Step into the Wild West future of Cowboy 3030, a third-person shooter with 3D bullet hell and roguelike elements. Play solo or team up with friends, as various heroes with unique abilities. Take on notorious alien outlaws, forge unique builds in every run and rise to become top gun of 3030!
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Hex Blast
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hex Blast is a horde survival x roguelike deckbuilder where you strategize on a hex grid, chaining explosive card combos to wipe out cyber hordes. Build your deck, collect overclocked chips, and discover the most broken builds to annihilate cyber threats—before they overwhelm you.
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castle idler
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
castle idler is a short, relaxing incremental tower defense game with no waves. upgrade towers, collect coins, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades to defend your castle.
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HypnoFish Inc.
Single-player alternative to Kungfu Cowboy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
HypnoFish Inc. is a first-person incremental game about working for the world's largest fishing corporation. Hypnotize fish, sell them, purchase upgrades, and uncover the mystery of this fishy business and why divers keep going missing.