Single-player games like Mud River
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Mud River, 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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Chronos Bound: How We Became Heroes
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mud River.
Pilot a lone ship through a collapsing orbital station in a modern 2.5D shoot ’em up. Block bullets with a 360° directional shield, destroy grotesque wreck-born enemies, defeat colossal bosses, and build new upgrade paths with every run — a love letter to classic shoot ’em ups.
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Space Dragons
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mud River.
Choose your spaceship and defeat the alien threat that comes from the Moon. Blast your way crushing, ripping apart and exploding hostile aliens that are taking control of powerful weapons and military technology from Earth. Find the entity that controls the threat and make it explode into blood.
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Energy Fighters
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mud River.
A modern retro inspired side scrolling shooter with a deep upgrade system and the ability to absorb enemy fire and also deflect it back to your enemies. A fast paced shooter that can be played solo or local co-op with 12 difficulty modes and lots of boss battles.
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Zarlor Mercenary
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mud River.
Top-down shooter action for the Atari Lynx handheld console. WANTED: Hot gun for hire. Travel to several exotic and dangerous places. Discover several exotic and dangerous aliens and kill them. Kill lots. For cash. Buy more weapons and kill again.
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R-Type Dimensions III
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mud River.
Building on the legacy of R-Type Dimensions and R-Type Dimensions EX, Dimensions III has been completely re-envisioned with cutting-edge visuals and sounds, expanded gameplay modes, and a range of new features designed to deliver the most definitive modern edition of R-Type’s classic era.
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SpinZap
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mud River.
SpinZap is a challenging game in classic arcade style. Use your reflexes, dexterity and boss skills to conquer 81 levels of circle zapping madness.
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VERZEUS
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Mud River.
Blast and weave your way through enemy fire while managing a wide variety of ship power-ups in this retro style horizontal shoot-'em-up!
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G-Darius HD
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Mud River.
You will see the creation of new lives... Capture enemies and fire them back at their allies as enormous beams of energy in this horizontally scrolling shooting game, featuring 5 versions of G-Darius with new features, enhancements, and Steam exclusive extras!
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Cyber Control
Single-player alternative to Mud River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mud River.
Cyber Control is a 3D puzzle platformer game set in a dystopian future, where the player controls either Jones Murdock or Jenny Li, rebels who need to escape from the cyber-neural network of the Alphas, a class of superhumans that dominate society.