Single-player games like Impaler Gold
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Impaler Gold, 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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Bloodshed
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!
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Nightmare Reaper
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
Blast through a cursed nightmare solo or with up to 3 friends. A retro-inspired FPS where looter shooter weapons meets boomer shooter chaos and rogue-lite elements.
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Dread Templar
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
Dread Templar is a fast-paced hardcore old-school FPS, combining classic 90s shooter and modern FPS elements. Unlock and combine dozens of weapon upgrades and skills, embrace the Dread Force and obliterate hordes of fiendish enemies. Become the scariest thing in hell and get your revenge!
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ULTRAKILL
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
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Project Warlock
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
Project Warlock is a first-person shooter that fans of Doom, Hexen, and Wolfenstein cannot miss. It serves you an exploding cocktail of bullets, spells, and monsters. Battle through 60 levels of non-stop action, packed with bloodthirsty enemies and challenging bosses.
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Deadlink
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
Get ready to put a sizable dent in the profits of megacorporations in Deadlink, a guns-blazing cyberpunk FPS with roguelite elements. Your mission is to conduct covert ops while piloting a humanoid combat shell. And no, "covert" doesn’t mean "quiet."
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STRAFE: Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Impaler Gold.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Impaler Gold.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Impaler Gold.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Impaler Gold.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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Ion Fury
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
3D Realms, creators of Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Max Payne, team up with Voidpoint to bring back the legendary Build Engine, famous for classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood. Fast-paced FPS combat across huge, secret-packed levels. Ion Fury is the real deal!
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Prodeus
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Impaler Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Impaler Gold.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!