Single-player games like Simulacrum
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Simulacrum, 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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Void Daggers
Single-player alternative to Simulacrum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Simulacrum.
One touch kills you. Your timer is your score. Neon wireframe horrors swarm from infinite darkness. Shatter them, harvest their essence, forge your daggers through 5 tiers of devastation. Bunny hop the void. Dagger jump to survive. Prove your skill on Steam leaderboards. For fans of Devil Daggers.
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hate.net
Single-player alternative to Simulacrum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Simulacrum.
An abandoned arena shooter overtaken by bots. You are a mere passerby, a witness to a world that has long been lost to fake accounts and false advertisers. Thousands before you, and thousands after you.
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Devil Daggers
Single-player alternative to Simulacrum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Simulacrum.
Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.
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HYPER DEMON
Single-player alternative to Simulacrum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Simulacrum.
HYPER DEMON is an FPS like no other. a pearl of lightning. a dream from the future. a drop of poison. a swan song. The faster you slay demons, the harder the game and the higher your score. There is an end. Will it see you?
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Chippy
Single-player alternative to Simulacrum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Simulacrum.
Chip destructible bosses apart pixel-by-pixel in this twin-stick bullet-hell shooter.
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Boomerang X
Single-player alternative to Simulacrum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Simulacrum.
Harness the power of a mystical boomerang to fling yourself through the air in this acrobatic arena shooter. Slice, fly, and blast through swarms of evil creatures on an abandoned island with a cryptic past. Stay agile or meet your doom.
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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Simulacrum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Simulacrum.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
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Swarmlake
Single-player alternative to Simulacrum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Simulacrum.
Swarmlake is an ultra-intense first-person shooter ballet about fighting a record-breaking swarm.