Single-player games like The Defaloon
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Defaloon, 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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AMID EVIL
Single-player alternative to The Defaloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Defaloon.
A retro FPS for the ages! Once branded a HERETIC. Now YOU have been chosen as our champion! Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancient lands. If you can stand... AMID EVIL.
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Anger Foot
Single-player alternative to The Defaloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Defaloon.
Anger Foot is a lightning fast action FPS where the only things harder than your ass kicking feet are the ass kicking beats.
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Prodeus
Single-player alternative to The Defaloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Defaloon.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to The Defaloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Defaloon.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
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Dead Beacon
Single-player alternative to The Defaloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Defaloon.
Dead Beacon is a first-person survival horror inspired by late 1990s games and taking place in the Beacon manor, a location crawling with zombies and creatures governed by a malevolent will. Survive using the given array of weapons and escape the island.
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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Single-player alternative to The Defaloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Defaloon.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!
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Post Void
Single-player alternative to The Defaloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Defaloon.
Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
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ROBOBEAT
Single-player alternative to The Defaloon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Defaloon.
Keep your trigger finger on the pulse! In rhythm shooter ROBOBEAT, you'll play as Ace - a bounty hunter on a mission to capture robot-gone-rogue Frazzer in his ever-shifting lair. Wall run, slide, and shoot to your own beat using the in-game custom music editor, blasting through Frazzer's armies!