Single-player games like Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter, 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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Pillars of Dust
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
In this retro-style RPG, Prince Carlton and pauper Gregg must make their separate ways through a mysterious land to learn their origins - and find some nuggets along the way.
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Zerra's Adventure
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Zerra’s Adventure is a classic turn-based RPG with minimal stumbles, falls, and googly eyes. Explore diverse areas, collect items and treasure to upgrade your characters, and defeat the strangest enemies. Level up, learn new attacks, and meet delightfully quirky characters throughout your adventure!
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Dream Warrior
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Can you, Dream Warrior, defeat the Demon Lord? Enter the Dream World in this streamlined, retro RPG and find out! It's harder than you might think, because you're no great hero. No, you are the town drunk.
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Cthulhu Saves the World
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
The lord of insanity, Cthulhu was all set to plunge the world into insanity and destruction when his powers were sealed by a mysterious sorcerer. The only way for him to break the curse is to become a true hero. Save the world to destroy it in an epic parody RPG journey of redemption, romance, and insanity!
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Two larger-than-life heroes, Ichiban Kasuga and Kazuma Kiryu are brought together by the hand of fate, or perhaps something more sinister… Live it up in Japan and explore all that Hawaii has to offer in an RPG adventure so big it spans the Pacific.
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Become Ichiban Kasuga, a low-ranking yakuza grunt left on the brink of death by the man he trusted most. Take up your legendary bat and get ready to crack some underworld skulls in dynamic RPG combat set against the backdrop of modern-day Japan.
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Breath of Death VII
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Resurrect the classic era of RPGs with the retro parody RPG, Breath of Death VII: The Beginning. Join Dem the Skeleton Knight, Sara the ghost historian, Lita the vampire techie, and Erik the zombie prince as they explore an undead world in search of the secrets of the past. Laugh! Cry! Laugh some more!
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Doom & Destiny
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Be ready for the nerdiest adventure of your life! Journey with four everyday friends into this turn based hilarious jrpg filled with parodies and cameos! Explore a huge fantasy world full of secrets, monsters, dungeons and preposterous villains! Nerds are storming fantasy and it's awesome!
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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
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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Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month February 2002!
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FINAL FANTASY
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
The original FINAL FANTASY comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the first game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
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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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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Super Crate Box
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can.
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GUN GODZ
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
GUN GODZ is a first person shooter about gun, gangster rap and the rich culture of Venus. Featuring a fully Venusian soundtrack by Jukio 'KOZILEK' Kallio and a single English track with rap lyrics by Adam 'Doseone' Kidd.
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ULTRABUGS
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: The Random Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Vlambeer's ULTRABUGS is a fast-paced high-score game in which you fight endless space bugs that split up into MORE space bugs as you fight and defeat them.