Single-player games like 20 Minutes Till Dawn
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to 20 Minutes Till Dawn, 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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10 Minutes Till Dawn
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Shoot down an ever growing horde of Lovecraftian monsters. Choose from a variety of upgrades to create unique and game-breaking builds. Unlock a diverse cast of characters and weapons with unique powers.
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Waspkeeper
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Waspkeeper is an action roguelite game where your main goal is to survive as long as possible in a field full of venomous wasps with one out of four playable characters.
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Last Star
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Last Star is a space shooter roguelite with tower defense elements. Pilot a spaceship to protect your solar core from endless waves of alien invaders. Upgrade both your core and spaceship to become unstoppable. Execute tactical counterattacks against alien motherships to slow down the invasion.
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Her Name Was Fire
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Her Name Was Fire is a Tarotpunk twin stick roguelike where you progressively unlock spells and upgrades to defeat hordes of void creatures. Survive the 5 stages of grief and vanquish the Major Allegories.
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Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
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Star Survivor
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Star Survivor is a space-themed survival game that blends intense deckbuilding strategy. Pilot humanity's last spaceship through the vast galaxy, Unlock powerful weapon combos, collect card modules, and craft unique builds. As the enemy swarms grow denser, will you be the last one standing?
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Brotato
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Embark on an epic saga in Asgard's Fall, a norse Survivors-like Roguelite. Fight your way through hordes of creatures and let the gods feel your relentless wrath. How will your saga unfold?
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
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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NIMRODS
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
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UBERMOSH
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.
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Fortune Mill
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
In this incremental game, you must make $1,000,000 in each room to escape. Throw darts, play scratch-off tickets, unlock automation, and choose upgrades carefully as each room affects all the others!
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Megabonk
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
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Prototype™
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
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.
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Army of Ruin
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Wreak havoc on countless foes with mighty weapons and deadly spells! Enhance your skills and face even greater dangers! Army of Ruin is an auto-shooter where you become the Bullet Hell.
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Bullet Bunny
Single-player alternative to 20 Minutes Till Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 20 Minutes Till Dawn.
Bullet Bunny is a twin-stick shooter with rogue-like elements. Fend off an onslaught of enemies, level up, and create unique builds every run while trying to survive 500 seconds!