Single-player games like METROPOCRE
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to METROPOCRE, 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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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Kusan: City of Wolves
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
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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Bloodroots
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.
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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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APE OUT
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
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POSTAL
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
Take control of The POSTAL Dude in his infamous first outing as he battles to survive in a world gone mad! POSTAL is a classic isometric shooter filled to the brim with fast-paced explosive action.
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Party Hard 2
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!
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Fisherman Classic
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
Welcome to Fishy Archipelago! Go fishing, catalog your most rare fishes and sea creatures, buy and find skins, hats, boats and properties. Build your fishy empire. The retro world is yours!
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Jurassic Fantasy
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with METROPOCRE.
Follow a young wizard in his path to find the Magical Stones and himself in this Jurassic Fantasy!
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A Fishy RPG
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with METROPOCRE.
A Fishy RPG is a retro-style game about surviving, exploring and finding legendary fishes in a strange and procedurally generated universe. Find the truth about fish, the surface fishermen and also Satan in this unique role-playing game.
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Moshcave
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
Buff Murphy and obliterate hundreds of enemies as you crawl deep into the cave of Dr. Mosh! Moshcave is a retro-style action roguelite game with many different possible builds and strange enemies that gets progressively stronger.
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Chico's Family-Friendly Circus
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with METROPOCRE.
Welcome to your new job, champ! Take the 2:00-4:00 A.M. shift at Chico's Family-Friendly Circus and hope for the best! A short horror Point & Clicker with multiple endings and dancing clowns.
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SHOVELBOY
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with METROPOCRE.
SHOVELBOY is a retro-style platformer where you have to collect shovels in 21 increasingly difficult small levels. How fast can you go?
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Skiing Frenzy
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with METROPOCRE.
It's skiing day! Skiing Frenzy is a 2D top-down, retro-style ski game where you can play Slalom and Free Ski modes, each one giving you different challenges and lots of fun.
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Jump Up, Jerry!
Single-player alternative to METROPOCRE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with METROPOCRE.
Jump Up, Jerry! is an arcade platformer where you have to jump your way through different types of cable cars and enemies in order to reach for your highest score.