Single-player games like Returnal™
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Returnal™, 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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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
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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Risk of Rain Returns
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
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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Roboquest
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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The Flame in the Flood
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
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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ArcRunner
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Traverse 'The Arc' in this beautiful, Cyberpunk-styled action rogue-lite as you attempt to reset an evil rogue AI. Experiment with different weapons and augments as you fight hordes of machines programmed for your annihilation! Collect Nanites & power-up after every run either solo or with friends!
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Remnant: From the Ashes
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
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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NieR:Automata™
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
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Demon's Soulbound
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Demon's Soulbound is a gay bara adult 3rd person point'n click adventure about domination, bdsm, sex between men and monsters, and serving a demon master.
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Alan Wake
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
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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SOULS
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?
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Nex Machina
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
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Outland
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Outland is a fast-paced, dynamic platformer where the player uses powers of light and dark in an epic journey to save the world from forces of chaos.