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Single-player games like Noobs Want to Live

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Noobs Want to Live, 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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    Choo Choo Survivor — Steam game cover

    Choo Choo Survivor

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!

    2023ActionIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok — Steam game cover

    Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok, is a challenging Norse inspired roguelite-survivor game, where you’ll have to survive hordes of creatures that come your way.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cultivation Story: Reincarnation — Steam game cover

    Cultivation Story: Reincarnation

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    Cultivation Story: Reincarnation is a top-down pixel art style action roguelike based on cultivation and Chinese mythology.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Spellbook Demonslayers — Steam game cover

    Spellbook Demonslayers

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    Slay endless hordes of demons to protect the Cosmic Library! Steal their abilities, find powerful equipment, and unlock the secrets of each spellbook to become unstoppable! Will you be able to destroy the demonic legion?

    2022ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dungeon Souls — Steam game cover

    Dungeon Souls

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue: Genesia — Steam game cover

    Rogue: Genesia

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Noobs Want to Live.

    Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.

    2025ActionStrategyRPG10.04 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    God Of Weapons — Steam game cover

    God Of Weapons

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    Embark on a thrilling journey in God of Weapons, an action roguelike where you must ascend the tower of Zhor to reclaim the last light for the world. To survive the monster onslaught on each tower's level, you'll need to obtain and carefully organize weapons and accessories in your inventory.

    2023ActionIndieRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    20 Minutes Till Dawn — Steam game cover

    20 Minutes Till Dawn

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire Survivors — Steam game cover

    Vampire Survivors

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prototype™ — Steam game cover

    Prototype™

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Noobs Want to Live.

    You are the Prototype, Alex Mercer, a man without memory armed with amazing shape-shifting abilities, hunting your way to the heart of the conspiracy which created you; making those responsible pay. Fast & Deadly Shape-Shifting Combat: Reconfigure your body to the situation at hand.

    2009ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gunfire Reborn — Steam game cover

    Gunfire Reborn

    Single-player alternative to Noobs Want to Live — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Noobs Want to Live.

    Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →