Single-player games like Returnal™
Below are 18 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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Deadzone: Rogue
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
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!
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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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Hades II
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
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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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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
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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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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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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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CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Neon White
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Neon White is a single-player speedrunning FPS where you can sacrifice your guns for godlike parkour moves.
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Blast your way through an interdimensional adventure with Ratchet and Clank – now on PC! Help them take on an evil emperor from another reality as you jump between action-packed worlds and beyond at hyper-speed!
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Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Returnal™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Returnal™.
Experience the epic Horizon Forbidden West™ in its entirety with bonus content and the Burning Shores expansion included. The Burning Shores add-on contains additional content for Aloy’s adventure, including new storylines, characters, and experiences in a stunning yet hazardous new area.
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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.